Achatiblatta, Li & Wang & Wang, 2018

Li, Xin-Ran, Wang, Li-Li & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2018, Rediscovered and new perisphaerine cockroaches from SW China with a review of subfamilial diagnosis (Blattodea: Blaberidae), Zootaxa 4410 (2), pp. 251-290 : 282

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:96DFDE73-A410-4D9B-9124-A5AC1070D112

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5986556

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0C3838D7-1F95-48D4-B3D6-9595366D0A5B

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:0C3838D7-1F95-48D4-B3D6-9595366D0A5B

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Achatiblatta
status

gen. nov.

Genus Achatiblatta gen. nov.

Etymology. This compound word is derived from Latin nouns achates (agate) and blatta (cockroach), referring to the natural beauty of this genus. Feminine.

Diagnosis. Body size small in the subfamily, tarsus very short, hind tarsus shorter than half of tibia. Nymphs and females with broadened terga (including supra-anal plate) extending beyond sterna.

Type species. Achatiblatta achates gen. & sp. nov. .

Distribution. Hainan Island.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Blattodea

Family

Blaberidae

SubFamily

Perisphaerinae

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