Lucihormetica Zompro & Fritzsche, 1999

Vidlička, Ľubomír, 2019, New genus and species of cockroaches from the tribe Brachycolini (Blattaria Blaberidae: Blaberinae) and redescription of the Hormetica strumosa, Zootaxa 4651 (1), pp. 155-172 : 162

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Genus Lucihormetica Zompro & Fritzsche, 1999 View in CoL

Diagnosis. The genus Lucihormetica includes twelve species of robust cockroaches that were separated from the genus Hormetica based on the presence of two very conspicuous protuberant yellow spots on pronotal disc. The name refers to bioluminescence of these yellow spots, but their luminosity is controversial till now ( Vršanský et al. 2012, Vršanský & Chorvát 2013, Greven & Zwanzig 2013, Merritt 2013).

Distribution: Amazonian rain forest—Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 ).

References

Greven, H. & Zwanzig, N. (2013) Courtship, Mating, and Organisation of the Pronotum in the Glowspot Cockroach Lucihormetica verrucosa (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) (Blattodea: Blaberidae). Entomologie Heute, 25, 77 - 97.

Merritt, D. J. (2013) Standards of evidence for bioluminescence in cockroaches. Naturwissenschaften, 100 (7), 697 - 698. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00114 - 013 - 1067 - 9

Vrsansky, P., Chorvat, D. A., Fritzsche, I., Hain, M. & Sevcik, R. (2012) Light-mimicking cockroaches indicate Tertiary origin of recent terrestrial luminescence. Naturwissenschaften, 99 (9), 739 - 749. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00114 - 012 - 0956 - 7

Vrsansky, P. & Chorvat, D. (2013) Luminescent system of Lucihormetica luckae supported by fluorescence lifetime imaging. Naturwissenschaften, 100 (11), 1099 - 1101. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00114 - 013 - 1100 - z

Zompro, O. & Fritzsche, I. (1999) Lucihormetica fenestrata n. gen., n. sp., the first record of luminescence in an orthopteroid insect (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae: Blaberinae: Brachycolini). Amazoniana, 15 (3 / 4), 211 - 219.