Balta bicolor

Balta bicolor

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: Ectobiidae
Subfamilia: Pseudophyllodromiinae
Genus: Balta
Species: Balta bicolor

Name

Balta bicolor Hebard, 1943: 87

• Original genus: Balta Tepper, 1893
• Original status: Valid species
• Primary type: Holotype
  • Fixation: Designated (as 'type')
  • Description: [Adult] male
  • Repository: QM T5439
• Type locality: 'Brisbane, southeast Queensland' [AUSTRALIA QLD]
• ZooBank: [1]

References

• Dahms, E. 1972: Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 16(2): 273–289. Reference page.  [See p. 275]
• 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. 87; original description (female, male)]
• Rentz, D. 2014. A guide to the cockroaches of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. Preview on Google books Reference page.  [See p. 260 (Photo misidentified! Photo shows same species as illustrated on p. 268 for Balta spuria.)]

Selected links

• Brisbane Insects and Spiders [This is probably Balta bicolor, and not Ellipsidion bicolor]
• Image [This is probably Balta bicolor, and not Ellipsidion sp.]
• Image [This is probably Balta bicolor, and not Ellipsidion humerale]
• Image [This is probably Balta bicolor, and not Ellipsidion sp.]
• Project Noah