Austroectobius Vera & Schapheer, 2018

Vera, Alejandro & Schapheer, Constanza, 2018, Austroectobius invunche: new genus and species of Ectobiidae for Chile (Insecta, Blattaria), Zootaxa 4500 (1), pp. 115-125 : 116

Genus Austroectobius Vera & Schapheer gen. n.

Type species. Austroectobius invunche gen. n., sp. n., monotypy.

Diagnosis. Small insects (around 10mm), oval; head subtriangular, wide as long, frontoclypeal suture incomplete, without ocelli; trapezoidal and convex pronotum; tiny and ellipsoidal tegmina, with scarce venation, do not cover metanotum, hind wings absent; spines on the antero-ventral margin of the front femur Type A 3; legs with pulvilli in tarsomeres I–IV, symmetric claws without specialization, developed arolium.

Male: without tergal specializations; supra-anal plate sclerotized, transverse, trapezoidal and straight posterior margin; lanceolate cerci, with eight segments; spatulate paraprocts with 3 rounded lobes, right with median spine; trapezoidal subgenital plate, anterior margin without modifications; asymmetrical styles, left with basal tooth. Genitalia: left phallomere with L2d with genital hook, curved apex in form of a wide fist, with two lateral teeth; right phallomere with R3v canoe-shaped and R2 like a wavy bifurcated fork; medium phallomere with 3 sclerites (L1a central, L1b ventral, L1c dorsal) and ejaculator duct specialized as long extern tube rolled up inside a large invagination, this tube is flexible, sclerosed and engages in a groove of L1b; L1b with a prominent staff, dorsally grooved, round apex and with a laminar bifurcation to the right.

Female: with strongly sclerotized spermathecal plate in the form of a ring, with oval spermathecal pore. Basivalvula and sternite IX as strongly sclerotized sheets in "v" form.

Etymology: austro + ectobius, austro taken from southern, Ectobius name of Ectobiidae genus.