Periplaneta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775)

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Periplaneta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775)

Synonymy:

Blatta aurantiaca Stoll, 1813

Periplaneta zonata Haan, 1842

Periplaneta inclusa Walker, 1868

Periplaneta rapenda Walker, 1868

Periplaneta subcincta Walker, 1868

Periplaneta emittens Walker, 1871

Polyzosteria subornata Walker, 1871

Distribution: Ecuador (+ Galápagos Islands) (Circumtropical); (terra typica was not defined).

Comments to faunistic records in Ecuador:

Scudder (1869:342): 2 specimens, Napo or Marañón.

Bolivar (1884:16): Coca, Ecuador (leg. Martínez y Saez).

Giglio-Tos (1898:10): Gualaquiza, Valle dello Zamora, La Concepcion nella valle del Mira – Ecuador.

Shelford (1913:59): Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Riobamba, Balsabamba.

Campos (1923:8): Guayaquil, Durán, Naranjito, San Rafael, Bucay, Posorja, El Morro (leg. F. Campos R.) and the same locality as mentioned by Giglio-Tos (1898).

Hebard (1924:125): 1 male, Guayaquil, Guayas, (leg. F. Campos R.); 1 female, Rio Zamora , Loja (leg. F. Campos R.) .

Campos (1926:50): Daule (leg. F. Campos R.), Portoviejo (leg. Justino Cornejo V.) and the same locality as mentioned by Giglio-Tos (1898), Shelford (1913) and Campos (1923).

Roth & Willis (1960:80): Ecuador (according Campos (1926)).

Bonsall (1995:33): Misahualli, Puerto Lopez, Jatun Sacha, Tena.

Comments to faunistic records in Galápagos:

Howard (1889:194): Charles Island, 3 images and 3 nymphs, 1887–88 (det. L. Bruner).

Scudder (1893:6): only the same exemplars as mentioned by Howard (1889).

McNeill (1901:494): Chatham, 1 male, and the same locality as mentioned by Howard (1889).

Hebard (1920b:316): Chatham Island , 1 female, October 1905 – January 1906 ; Charles Island , 3 males, 6 females, October 1905 (leg. F.X. Williams) .

Hebard (1929:364): Charles Island, 1 juv. female, August 1924 (leg. Miss Cheesman).

Hebard (1934:279): Charles Island , (= Floreana), Postoffice Bay, 2 males, 3 females, 1 juv., 5 August–25 November 1925 .

Linsley & Usinger (1966:125): San Cristóbal, Floreana.

Parkin et al. (1972:102): 1 specimen, Floreana, 31 August 1968 (det. D. R. Ragge) .

Maes (1992b:3): Galápagos.

Peck & Roth (1992:2205): Islas Floreana, San Cristóbal, Isabela, Santa Cruz.

Peck (1996:1501); Peck (1998:223) & Peck (2001:149): the same data as mentioned by Peck & Roth (1992).