Balta spuria

Taxonavigation

Balta spuria? (male), from New Zealand

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: Ectobiidae
Subfamilia: Pseudophyllodromiinae
Genus: Balta
Species: Balta spuria

Name

Balta spuria (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

• Original genus: Phyllodromia

Synonymy

• Apolyta marginata Tepper, 1895: 152
• Blatta bitaeniata de Saussure, 1869: 243
• Blatta latirupta Walker, 1869: 143

References

• Hebard, M. 1943: Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, (4) Google books Reference page.  [See p. 54]
• Rentz, D. 2014. A guide to the cockroaches of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. Preview on Google books Reference page.  [See p. 268, and photo on p. 260 misidentified as Balta bicolor]

Selected links

• Blattodea Species File (Version 1.0/4.1)
• image (identity not validated, and probably male, not female)
• Image of female on flickr
• BowerBird

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