Balta valida (Bey-Bienko, 1958) Bey-Bienko, 1958

Qiu, Zhi-Wei, Che, Yan-Li, Zheng, Yu-Hong & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2017, The cockroaches of Balta Tepper from China, with the description of four new species (Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Pseudophyllodromiinae), ZooKeys 714, pp. 13-32 : 28-29

Balta valida (Bey-Bienko, 1958) comb. n. Figs 13, 14, 88-99

Onychostylus validus Bey-Bienko, 1958: 589 (Type locality: Yunnan, China).

Lupparia valida : Princis 1969: 957.

Material examined.

Deposited in IESWU. China, Yunnan Prov.: 19 males, Xishuangbanna, Menghun, 650 m, 4-9 April 1958, coll. Yiran Zhang and Xuwu Meng; 1 male and 1 female, Xishuangbanna, Dadugang, 22°22.190′N, 100°56.977′E, 29 May 2014, coll. Xinran Li and Hongguang Liu; 5 males and 5 females, Puer, Meizihu park, 20 May 2016, coll. Zhiwei Qiu and Lu Qiu; 2 males and 1 female, Xishuangbanna, Wangtianshu, 22 May 2016 coll. Zhiwei Qiu and Lu Qiu. China, Hainan Prov.: 1 male, Wuzhi Mountain, 18°54.290′N, 109°41.081'E, 795 m, 18 May 2014, coll. Shunhua Gui and Xinran Li. 1 male, Limu Mountain, 16 April 2016, coll. Jianyue Qiu.

Redescription.

Male. Body yellowish brown (Figs 13, 14). Vertex between eyes brick-red, between two ocelli yellow, remainder of face yellowish brown and without stripes (Figs 13, 14). Maxillary palpomeres yellowish brown with either base blackish brown. Base of antenna yellowish brown and the rest blackish brown to black. Pronotum yellowish brown and disc with some black spots, lateral borders hyaline. Legs yellowish brown. Base and two borders of abdominal sternites black (Fig. 14). Third and fourth maxillary palpomeres approximately same length, both distinctly longer than the fifth (Fig. 89). Tegmen with M degeneration and CuA with more branches (Fig. 91). Hind wing with M without branches, near apex of R with short branches, CuA with four to six complete branches and two or three branches of them bifurcated near apex (Fig. 92). Front femur type B3 (Fig. 93), tarsal claws strongly asymmetrical and unspecialized (Fig. 94). Abdominal tergites unspecialized.

Male genitalia. Supra-anal plate in ventral view short, hind margin finely rounded, right and left paraprocts unsymmetrical (Fig. 95). The hind margin of subgenital plate concave near lateral sides and with densely setae; styli conical, with densely scattered short setae, located on lateral lobes (Fig. 96). Hook-like phallomere on right side and with preapical concavity (Fig. 97). Median phallomere thick and strong and near apex with a brush-like structure; base of appendage also with long strip brush-like structure (Fig. 98). Left phallomere complex, with brush-like structure (Fig. 99).

Measurements (mm).

Overall length male 16.3-20.5, female 14.5-17.0; tegmen length male 14.2-17.0, female 12.0-14.1; pronotum length × width male 2.3-4.0 × 3.3-5.3, female 3-4.3 × 3.3-5.1.

Distribution.

China (Hainan, Yunnan).