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Genus Pycnoscelus Scudder, 1862

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Genus Pycnoscelus Scudder, 1862

  • Pycnoscelus Scudder, S.H. 1862. Materials for a monograph of the North American Orthoptera. Boston Journal of Natural History 7: 409-480 [421].
    Type species:
     Pycnoscelus obscurus Scudder, 1862 by monotypy (= Blatta surinamensis Linnaeus, 1758).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Circumtropical.


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, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Norfolk Island
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Distribution References

  • 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 [263]

General References

Roth, L.M. 1973. The male genitalia of Blattaria. X. Blaberidae. Pycnoscelus, Stilpnoblatta, Proscrotea (Pycnoscelinae), and Diploptera (Diplopterinae). Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 80: 241-264