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Cave dwelling cockroaches from Sarawak, with one new species
Author(s) -
ROTH LOUIS M.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1980.tb00402.x
Subject(s) - cave , biology , cockroach , genus , zoology , ecology
. The troglobitic cockroach, Trogoblattella chapmani , sp.n., is described. The genus was known previously from a single species found in limestone caves in Australia. Two of three other species found in the Sarawak caves, namely Symploce cavemicola (Shelford) and Pycnoscelus striata (Kirby) have previously been reported from cave habitats. The third, Pycnoscelus indicus (Fabricius), may have been reported previously from caves, under the name of Pycnoscelus surinamensis (Linnaeus). A single undetermined female of Blattella was present in the collection.