Geoscapheinae

Geoscapheus dilatatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Blaberoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Supercohort: Polyneoptera Cohort: Dictyoptera Ordo: Blattodea Superfamilia: Blaberoidea

Familia: Blaberidae
Subfamilia: Geoscapheinae
Genera (4): Geoscapheus – Macropanesthia – Neogeoscapheus – Parapanesthia

Source(s) of checklist:
Checklist based uncritically on Blattodea Species File

Name

Geoscapheinae Tepper, 1893: 67

References

• Humphrey, M.; Rose, H.A.; Colgan, D.J. 1998: Electrophoretic studies of cockroaches of the Australian endemic subfamily Geoscapheinae. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 124(3): 209–234. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb00575.x
• Maekawa, K. et al. 2003: The evolution of soil-burrowing cockroaches (Blattaria: Blaberidae) from wood-burrowing ancestors following an invasion of the latter from Asia into Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B), 270(1521): 1301–1307. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2359 [See abstract: 'The well–supported topology revealed the Panesthiinae to be paraphyletic with respect to the Geoscapheinae']
• Rentz, D. 2014. A guide to the cockroaches of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. Preview on Google books Reference page.  [See p. 84]
• Rugg, D.; Rose, H.A. 1984: The taxonomic significance of reproductive behaviour in some Australian cockroaches (Blattodea: Blaberidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 23(2): 118. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1984.tb01923.x [See p. 118]
• Walker, J.A.; Rose, H.A. 1998: Oothecal structure and male genitalia of the Geoscapheinae and some Australian Panaesthia Serville (Blattodea: Blaberidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 37(1): 23–26. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1998.tb01538.x

Additional references

• Jex, A.R. et al. 2007: A comprehensive analysis of the biogeography of the thelastomatoid pinworms from Australian burrowing cockroaches (Blaberidae: Geoscapheinae, Panesthiinae): no evidence of coevolution. Parasitology, 134(10): 1387–1399. DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007002843

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