Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Laxta Walker, 1868

Museums

Regional Maps

Genus Laxta Walker, 1868

  • Laxta Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [17] [junior subjective synonym of Oniscosoma Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865].
    Type species:
     Laxta oniscoides Walker, 1868 by original designation (= Laxta granicollis Saussure, 1862).
  • Oniscosoma Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls [298] [junior homonym of Onicosoma Sars, 1850 (Vermes)].
    Type species:
     Zetobora granicollis Saussure, 1862 by subsequent designation, see Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 501 pp. [159]
  • Pseudopanchlora Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [55] [tentatively described as a subgenus of Ischnoptera].
    Type species:
     Ischnoptera punctosa Walker, 1869 by monotypy (as Ischnoptera punctuosa, incorrect subsequent spelling).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Roth, L.M. 1992. The Australian cockroach genus Laxta Walker (Dicyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 389-435 [390] (generic revision, key to males)

 

Excluded Taxa

Laxta brunneri (Brancsik, 1897), see Princis, K. 1964. Pars 6: Blattariae: Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam. Panchloridae, Gynopeltididae, Derocalymmidae, Perisphaeriidae, Pycnoscelididae. pp. 174-281 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Gravenhage : Junk [226] [=Pellita brunneri].

Laxta chitonoides Walker, 1868, see Princis, K. 1958. Revision der Walkerschen und Kirbyschen Blatterientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. II. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 23: 59-75 [75] [=Petasodes moufeti (Kirby, 1817)].

 

Distribution

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

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Distribution References

  • Roth, L.M. 1992. The Australian cockroach genus Laxta Walker (Dicyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 389-435 [422, 423]

General References

Saussure, H. de 1862. Orthoptera nova americana (Diagnoses praeliminaires). Series III. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 14(2): 63-71, 227-234 [232] (misidentified Laxta as Zetobora Burmeister)

Schmeltz, J.D.E & Pöhl, C.A. (eds) 1877. Insecta. Ordo I. Orthoptera. pp. in Catalog VI der zum Verkauf stehenden Doubletten aus den Naturhistorischen Expeditionen der Herren Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn in Hamburg. Hamburg : L. Friedrichsen & Co. 18-23 pp. [19] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Oniscomorpha)