The Cockroach Genus Calolampra of Australia With Descriptions of New Species (Blaberidae)

Princis (963) listed 23 species of Calolampra, thirteen o.f them from Australia. and t’he others fro.m Africa, India, Burma, China., Sarawak and the Philippines. Calola’mpra siml’ansis from the Hima.layas was described by Baijal and Kapoor (1966). Recently, the African species were placed in a new genus Pseudocalolampra (Roth and Princis, 97I) and Cal,olampra la!evis (Brunner v. W.) from Burma. and China was assigned to the new genus Ca’lola’mprodes (Bey-Bienko, I969). Of the other species, "’C,a’lolampra’" brunneri (Brancsik) is a mislabeled Derocalymma cruralis, and "’C.’" punctosa (Walker) belongs to the ge.nus Laxta (Princis, I967, p. 7o8). Calolampra trunca’ta (Brunner v. W.) was listed by Princis (1967, p. 627) under the genus Rhabdoblatta. In this paper we describe 26 species of Australian Ca’lolampra; of which 12 are new. Five species, C. gracili, (Brunner v. W.), C. atomifera (Walker), C. notabilis (Walker), C. signatura (Walker), and C. propria (Walker) have been considered to be synonyms o4 C. irrorata (Fabr.) (Princis, I9.63). Of these, propria is a s.yno.nym o.f C. atomifera (Walker); the other 4, we believe, are valid species. The genitalia of Calolampra co.nsist of 3 major phallomeres (Fig. ). An L2d (dorsal sclerite of the second le’t phallomere) is apparently absent. The prepuce is co.vered with microtrichia, curves upward and is tused to the L2vm. When well developed the prepuce is cup-shaped and with L2vm as a handle looks like a ladle; rarely is the prepuce unmodified (e.g. Fig. 82). L (first sclerite ot lett phallomere) and R2 (hooked sclerite ot the right phallomere) is well developed and lacks a subapical incision. The hypandrium (subgenital plate) is symmetrical and bears 2 small equal sized styli. All photographs ot genitalia, supra-anal plate, and hypandrium are rom specimens treated with 0% KOH, dehydrated, and mounted in Permount. Supra-anal plates were mounted dorsal surface upward and subgenital plates ventral side uppermost. One or