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Genus Balta Tepper, 1893

  • Balta Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [40].
    Type species:
     Balta epilamproides Tepper, 1893 by monotypy.
  • Mareta Bolívar, I. 1895. Mission scientifiques de M. Ch. Alluaud aux îles Séchelles (mars, avril, mai, 1892), 6e mémoire: Orthoptères. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64: 369-385 [371].
    Type species:
     Mareta conspicienda Bolívar, 1895 by monotypy (= Blatta innotabilis Walker, 1871).
  • Supellina Chopard, L. 1921. Report on the Orthoptera of Mesopotamia and Persia collected by Messrs P.A. Buxton, M.A. and W.E. Evans, B.Sc. Dictyoptera and Ensifera. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27: 759-771 [760].
    Type species:
     Supellina buxtoni Chopard, 1921 by monotypy (= Blatta ramifera Walker, 1871).
  • Allactina Hebard, M. 1929. Studies in Malayan Blattidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 81: 1-109 [18] [junior homonym of Allactina Curran, 1924 (Diptera)].
    Type species:
     Allactina jacobsoni Hebard, 1929 by monotypy.
  • Hebardula Uvarov, B.P. 1939. Twenty-four new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3(11): 457-459 [457] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Allactina Hebard, 1929].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Princis, K. 1969. Pars 13: Blattariae: Subordo Epilamproidea, Fam. Blattellidae. pp. 713-1038 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Gravenhage : Junk [968] (includes extralimital distribution)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Region (Polynesian subregion), Oriental Region (Austro-Malayan, Indo-Malayan, Indo-Chinese and Indian subregions), Palaearctic Region (Manchurian and Mediterranean subregions), Afrotropical Region (East African and West African subregions).


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Lord Howe Island
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
  • Fiji

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

  • Princis, K. 1969. Pars 13: Blattariae: Subordo Epilamproidea, Fam. Blattellidae. pp. 713-1038 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Gravenhage : Junk [968]

General References

Grandcolas, P. 1996. The phylogeny of cockroach families: a cladistic appraisal of morpho-anatomical data. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74: 508-527 (accords Pseudophyllodromiinae familial status)

Hebard, M. 1943. Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4: 1-129 [37] (generic revision)

Roth, L.M. 1991. New combinations, synonymies, redescriptions and new species of cockroaches, mostly Indo-Australian Blattellidae. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 953-1021 [967] (possible new generic synonymy, new combinations)