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Genus Margattea Shelford, 1911

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Genus Margattea Shelford, 1911

  • Margattea Shelford, R.W.C. 1911. Preliminary diagnoses of some new genera of Blattidae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 2: 154-156 [155].
    Type species:
     Blatta ceylanica Saussure, 1868 by monotypy.
  • Kuchinga Hebard, M. 1929. Studies in Malayan Blattidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 81: 1-109 [39].
    Type species:
     Phyllodromia longealata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898 by original designation.
  • Molestella Bruijning, C.F.A. 1948. Studies on Malayan Blattidae. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 29: 1-174 [74].
    Type species:
     Phyllodromia molesta Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898 by monotypy.
  • Theganosilpha Kumar, R. & Princis, K. 1978. The African species of Theganopteryx (Blattaria, Ectobiidae). Systematic Entomology 3: 19-34 [33].
    Type species:
     Theganopteryx perspicillaris Karny, 1915 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Roth, L.M. 1989. The cockroach genus Margattea Shelford, with a new species from the Krakatau Islands, and redescriptions of several species from the Indo-Pacific region (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blattellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 91: 206-229 [207] (generic revision)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Oriental Region (Indo-Malayan and Indo-Chinese subregions), Afrotropical Region (West African), Australian Region (Polynesian subregion).


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

NT: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N coastal

Oriental Region

Distribution References

  • Princis, K. 1969. Pars 13: Blattariae: Subordo Epilamproidea, Fam. Blattellidae. pp. 713-1038 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Gravenhage : Junk [862]

General References

Asahina, S. 1979. Taxonomic notes on Japanese Blattaria. X. Margattea and Theganosilpha. Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology 30: 107-119

Grandcolas, P. 1996. The phylogeny of cockroach families: a cladistic appraisal of morpho-anatomical data. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74: 508-527 (includes Pseudophyllodromiinae in the Pseudophyllodromiidae)

Roth, L.M. 1991. New combinations, synonymies, redescriptions and new species of cockroaches, mostly Indo-Australian Blattellidae. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 953-1021 [980, 982] (new combinations, Molestella synonym of Margattea)