II. SPECIES OF COCKROACHES

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The cockroaches referred to in this paper are listed below. The currently accepted name for each species is given alphabetically by genus and species irrespective of its taxonomic affinities. Synonyms used by certain authors whose work we have quoted are given in brackets under the respective species; the synonymy is supported by the reference citation that follows each synonym. References to illustrations of certain species (e.g., Blaberus craniifer) that appear in the paper follow the names of the describers.

Agis orientalis Chopard

Aglaopteryx absimilis Gurney

diaphana (Fabricius) [Ceratinoptera diaphana Fabricius; Rehn and Hebard (1927)]

facies (Walker) [Aglaopteryx devia Rehn; Princis (1929). A. diaphana (Fabricius) in records from Puerto Rico only; Rehn (1932b); Gurney (1937)]

gemma Hebard [In Florida records = Ceratinoptera diaphana R. and H.; Hebard (1917)]

vegeta Rehn

ypsilon Princis

Allacta similis (Saussure) [Phyllodromia obtusata Brunner; Zimmerman (1948)]

Alluaudellina cavernicola (Shelford) [Alluaudella cavernicola Shelford; Chopard (1932)]

Amazonina emarginata Princis

Anaplecta asema Hebard

azteca Saussure

decipiens Saussure and Zehntner

fallax Saussure

hemiscotia Hebard

lateralis Burmeister

mexicana Saussure

Aneurina tahuata Hebard

viridis Hebard

Apotrogia angolensis Kirby [Acanthogyna deplanata Chopard; Princis (1957)]

Aptera fusca (Thunberg) [Aptera cingulata (Burmeister); Gurney (personal communication, 1957)]

Apteroblatta perplexa Shelford

Archiblatta hoevenii Vollenhoven

Archimandrita marmorata (Stoll)

tessellata Rehn

Arenivaga apacha (Saussure)

bolliana (Saussure)

erratica (Rehn)

floridensis Caudell

grata Hebard

roseni (Brancsik) [Heterogamodes roseni; Bei-Bienko (1950). "Polygamia" roseni is undoubtedly an erroneous citation of Polyphaga roseni, as there is no genus Polygamia (Gurney, personal communication, 1957)].

tonkawa Hebard

Aristiger histrio (Burmeister) [Plumiger histrio (Burm.); Bruijning (1948). Hemithyrsocera histrio Burm.; Hebard (1929)]

Aspiduchus boriquen J. W. H. Rehn [In Puerto Rico records = Aspiduchus deplanatus R. and H.; Rehn, J. W. H. (1951a)]

cavernicola J. W. H. Rehn

deplanatus (Saussure)

Attaphila aptera BolÍvar

bergi BolÍvar

flava Gurney

fungicola Wheeler

schuppi BolÍvar

sexdentis BolÍvar

Atticola mortoni BolÍvar

Audreia bromeliadarum Caudell

jamaicana Rehn and Hebard

Balta godeffroyi (Shelford)

patula (Walker)

platysoma (Walker) [Temnopteryx platysoma (Walker); Hebard (1943)]

quadricaudata Hebard

scripta (Shelford)

torresiana Hebard

verticalis Hebard

Bantua stigmosa (Krauss) [Derocalymma stigmosa Krauss; Princis (1957)]

Blaberus atropos (Stoll) [Blabera fusca Brunner; Hebard (1917)]

boliviensis Princis

craniifer Burmeister (pls. 1, 2)

discoidalis Serville [Blaberus cubensis Saussure; Hebard (1916)]

giganteus (Linnaeus) (pl. 3)

Blaptica dubia (Serville) [Blaberus clarazianus Saussure; Rehn, J. W. H. (1951)]

Blatta orientalis Linnaeus (pl. 4) [Periplaneta orientalis; Hebard (1917)]

(Shelfordella) lateralis (Walker) [Shelfordella tartara (Saussure); Princis (1957). Periplaneta tartara Saussure; Bei-Bienko (1950)]

Blattella germanica (Linnaeus) (pls. 5, A, B; 31, F) [Blatella germanica; Gurney (1952). Phyllodromia germanica; Hebard (1917). Ectobius germanicus; Gurney (personal communication, 1957)]

humbertiana (Saussure) [Blatta humbertiana; Phyllodromia humbertiana; Hebard (1929)]

lituricollis (Walker) (fig. 7, A) [Blattella bisignata (Brunner); Bei-Bienko (1950)]

schubotzi Shelford

vaga Hebard (pl. 5, C, D)

Buboblatta armata (Caudell) [Latindia armata Caudell; Hebard (1920)]

Byrsotria cabrerae Rehn and Hebard

fumigata (GuÉrin) (pl. 6)

Cahita borero Rehn

nahua (Saussure)

Capucinella delicatula Hebard

Cariblatta antiguensis (Saussure and Zehntner)

cuprea Hebard

delicatula (GuÉrin) [Blattella delicatula GuÉrin; Cariblatta punctulata (Beauvois); Rehn and Hebard (1927)]

hylaea Rehn

imitans Hebard

insularis (Walker)

landalei Rehn and Hebard

lutea lutea (Saussure and Zehntner)

lutea minima Hebard (pl. 7, A, B)

nebulicola Rehn and Hebard

orestera Rehn and Hebard

punctipennis Hebard

reticulosa (Walker)

stenophrys Rehn and Hebard

Cariblattoides instigator Rehn and Hebard

suave Rehn and Hebard

Ceratinoptera picta Brunner

Chorisoneura barbadensis Rehn and Hebard

flavipennis Saussure and Zehntner

formosella Rehn and Hebard

parishi Rehn

specilliger Hebard

texensis Saussure and Zehntner [Chorisoneura plocea Rehn; Rehn and Hebard (1916)]

translucida (Saussure)

Choristima sp.

Choristimodes sp.

Chromatonotus infuscatus (Brunner)

notatus (Brunner)

Compsodes schwarzi (Caudell)

Comptolampra liturata (Serville) [Compsolampra liturata; Comptolampra is the original spelling, which is followed by Dr. K. Princis, according to Gurney (personal communication, 1959)]

Cosmozosteria lateralis (Walker)

Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder (pl. 8, A)

relictus Bei-Bienko

Cutilia nitida (Brunner)

soror (Brunner)

sp. near sedilloti (BolÍvar) (pl. 9) [Determined by Dr. A. B. Gurney from photographs.]

Cyrtotria capucina (Gerstaecker)

Dendroblatta sobrina Rehn

Derocalymma cruralis (StÅl) [Homalodemas cruralis (StÅl); Gurney (personal communication, 1957)]

lampyrina Gerstaecker

porcellio Gerstaecker

Deropeltis autraniana Saussure

erythropeza Adelung

melanophila (Walker)

nigrita Saussure

Diploptera punctata (Eschscholtz) (pls. 10, 36) [Diploptera dytiscoides (Serville); Princis (1950). Eleutheroda dytiscoides (Serville); Zimmerman (1948)]

Dryadoblatta scotti (Shelford) [Homalopteryx scotti Shelford; Rehn (1930)]

Ectobius africanus Saussure

albicinctus (Brunner)

duskei Adelung

lapponicus (Linnaeus) [Ectobius perspicillaris Herbst, as used by Lucas (1920); Blair (1934)]

lucidus Hgb.

nicaeensis (Brisout)

pallidus (Olivier) (pls. 7, C; 29, A) [Ectobius lividus (Fabricius); Ectobius livens (Turton); Kevan (1952); Princis (in Roth and Willis, 1957)]

panzeri Stephens [Ectobius ericetorum (WesmaËl); Ramme (1923)]

panzeri var. nigripes Stephens

semenovi Bei-Bienko

sylvester (Poda) [Ectobius sylvestris (Poda); Ramme (1951)]

tadzihicus Bei-Bienko

vittiventer (Costa) [Ectobius vittiventris (Costa); Ramme (1951)]

Ellipsidion Saussure [Apolyta Brunner; Hebard (1943)]

affine Hebard

australe Saussure [Ellipsidion pellucidum (Brunner); Hebard (1943)]

bicolor (Tepper)

simulans Hebard

variegatum (Fabricius) [Ellipsidion aurantium Saussure; Hebard (1943)]

Epilampra abdomen-nigrum (De Geer)

annandalei Shelford

azteca Saussure

conferta Walker

conspersa Burmeister

grisea (De Geer)

maya Rehn

mexicana Saussure

mona Rehn and Hebard

notabilis Walker

sodalis Walker

tainana Rehn and Hebard

wheeleri Rehn

sp. (fig. 7, B, C)

Eremoblatta subdiaphana (Scudder)

Ergaula capensis (Saussure) [Dyscologamia capensis Saussure; Dyscologamia wollastoni Kirby; Princis (1957)]

scarabaeoides Walker [Dyscologamia piolosa (Walker); Princis (1957). Parapolyphaga erectipilis Chopard; Princis (1950). Dyscologamia chopardi Hanitsch; Bruijning (1948). Miroblatta silphoides Chopard; Hebard (1929)].

Escala sp.

Euandroblatta palpalis Chopard

Eublaberus posticus (Erichson)

Eudromiella bicolorata Hebard

calcarata Bei-Bienko

Euphyllodromia angustata (Latreille)

liturifera [Euphyllodromia decastigmata Hebard; Princis (1959)]

Eurycotis bananae Bei-Bienko

biolleyi Rehn [Eurycotis carbonaria Biolley; Rehn (1918)]

caraibea (BolÍvar)

decipiens (Kirby)

dimidiata (BolÍvar)

ferrum-equinum Rehn and Hebard

floridana (Walker) (pl. II) [Platyzosteria ingens Scudder; Platyzosteria sabalianus Scudder and hence, by inference, Eurycotis sabalianus (Scudder); Hebard (1917)]

galeoides Rehn and Hebard

improcera Rehn

kevani Princis

lixa Rehn

manni Rehn

opaca (Brunner)

Euthlastoblatta abortiva (Caudell)

Euthyrrhapha nigra Chopard

pacifica Coquebert

Geoscapheus robustus Tepper

Graptoblatta notulata (StÅl) [Blatta notulata StÅl; Hebard (1929). Phyllodromia hieroglyphica Brunner; Kirby (1904)]

Gromphadorhina laevigata S. and Z.

portentosa (Schaum) (pl. 12, A, B)

Gyna kazungulana Giglio-Tos

maculipennis (Schaum) [Gyna vetula Brunner; Shelford (1909b)]

tristis Hanitsch

Hebardina concinna (Haan) [Blatta concinna Haan; Blattina concinna (Haan); Bei-Bienko (1950)]

Hemiblabera brunneri (Saussure)

Henicotyle antillarum (Brunner)

Heterogamodes krÜgeri (Salfi)

rugosa (Schulthess)

Holocompsa azteca (Saussure)

cyanea (Burmeister)

fulva (Burmeister)

metallica Rehn and Hebard

nitidula (Fabricius)

zapoteca Saussure

Hololampra bivittata (BrullÉ)

chavesi (BolÍvar)

maculata (Schreber) [Aphlebia maculata Schreber; Harz (1957); Gurney (personal communication, 1959)]

marginata (Schreber)

punctata (Charpentier) [Aphlebia punctata Charpentier; Ramme (1951)]

Hololeptoblatta sp.

Homalopteryx laminata Brunner

Hoplosphoropyga babaulti Chopard

Hormetica apolinari Hebard

laevigata Burmeister

ventralis Burmeister

Ignabolivaria bilobata Chopard

Ischnoptera deropeltiformis (Brunner) (pl. 12A) [Temnopteryx deropeltiformis Brunner; Hebard (1917)]

panamae Hebard

podoces Rehn and Hebard

rufa occidentalis Saussure

rufa rufa (De Geer)

schenklingi Karney

Karnyia discoidalis (Brunner)

Kuchinga hemerobina (Gerstaecker) [Phyllodromia hemerobina Gerstaecker; Rehn (1932)]

remota Hebard

Lamproblatta albipalpus Hebard

meridionalis (Brunner)

Latiblattella chichimeca (Saussure and Zehntner) [Blattella chichimeca S. and Z.; Hebard (1932)]

lucifrons Hebard

rehni Hebard

vitrea (Brunner)

zapoteca (Saussure)

Leucophaea maderae (Fabricius) (pl. 13) [Rhyparobia maderae; Hebard (1917). Panchlora maderae; Kirby (1904). Very probably "Blaberus" maderae is a careless reference to this species; Gurney (personal communication, 1957)]

Leurolestes pallidus (Brunner)

Litopeltis biolleyi (Saussure)

bispinosa (Saussure) [Audreia marginata Caudell; Hebard (1920)]

deianira Rehn

musarum Rehn

Lobolampra subaptera Rambur

Loboptera decipiens (Germar)

thaxteri Hebard

Lobopterella dimidiatipes (BolÍvar) [Loboptera dimidiatipes (BolÍvar); Princis (1957a). Loboptera sakalava (Saussure); Hebard (1933a). Loboptera extranea Perkins; Hebard (1922). Princis (1957a) in erecting Lobopterella pointed out that only the nontypical variety of sakalava is identical with dimidiatipes.]

Lophoblatta arawaka Hebard

Macropanesthia rhinocerus Saussure

Mareta acutiventris Chopard

Maretina uahuka Hebard

Megaloblatta blaberoides (Walker) [Megaloblatta rufipes Dohrn; Hebard (1920)]

Megamareta verticalis Hebard

Melanosilpha capensis Saussure and Zehntner

Methana canae Pope

curvigera (Walker)

marginalis (Saussure)

Moluchia (?) dahli Princis

Monastria biguttata (Thunberg)

Muzoa madida Rehn

Myrmeblattina longipes (Chopard)

Myrmecoblatta rehni Mann

wheeleri Hebard

Namablatta bitaeniata (StÅl)

Nauclidas nigra (Brunner) [Poroblatta nigra Brunner; Rehn (1930)]

Nauphoeta cinerea (Olivier) (pl. 14) [Nauphoeta bivittata Burmeister; Zimmerman (1948)]

flexivitta (Walker) [Nauphoeta brazzae (BolÍvar); Rehn (1937)]

punctipennis Chopard

Nelipophygus ramsdeni Rehn and Hebard

Neoblattella brunneriana (Saussure) [Blattella brunneriana; Gurney (personal communication, 1959)]

carcinus Rehn and Hebard

celeripes Rehn and Hebard

detersa (Walker)

dryas Rehn and Hebard

eurydice Rehn and Hebard

fratercula Hebard

fraterna (Saussure and Zehntner)

grossbecki Rehn and Hebard

laodamia Rehn and Hebard

nahua (Saussure) [Blattella nahua Saussure and Zehntner of Caudell (1914); Hebard (1920)]

proserpina Rehn and Hebard

semota Rehn and Hebard

tridens Rehn and Hebard

vatia Rehn and Hebard

Neostylopyga rhombifolia (Stoll) (pl. 15) [Dorylaea rhombifolia; Rehn (personal communication, 1956)]

Nesomylacris cubensis Rehn and Hebard

relica Rehn and Hebard

Nocticola bolivari Chopard

caeca BolÍvar

decaryi Chopard

simoni BolÍvar

sinensis Silvestri

termitophila Silvestri

Nothoblatta wasmanni (BolÍvar)

Notolampra antillarum Shelford

Nyctibora azteca Saussure and Zehntner

brunnea (Thunberg)

laevigata (Beauvois)

lutzi Rehn and Hebard

mexicana Saussure

noctivaga Rehn

obscura Saussure

sericea Burmeister

stygia Walker

tomentosa Serville [Nyctibora latipennis Burmeister; Hebard (1917, p. 263)]

Oniscosoma granicollis (Saussure)

Opisthoplatia maculata Shiraki

orientalis (Burmeister)

Oulopteryx meliponarum Hebard

Oxyhaloa buprestoides (Saussure)

deusta (Thunberg)

Panchlora antillarum Saussure

exoleta Burmeister

fraterna Saussure and Zehntner

nivea (Linnaeus) (pl. 16) [Panchlora cubensis Saussure; Gurney (1955). Pycnosceloides aporus Hebard; Hebard (1921c)]

peruana Saussure

sagax Rehn and Hebard

virescens (Thunberg)

Panesthia angustipennis (Illiger) [Panesthia javanica Serville; Hebard (1929)]

australis Brunner (pl. 8, B)

laevicollis Saussure

lobipennis Brunner

spadica (Shiraki)

Parahormetica bilobata (Saussure)

Parcoblatta americana (Scudder)

bolliana (Saussure and Zehntner) [Kakerlac schaefferi Rehn; Hebard (1917)]

caudelli Hebard [?? of Ischnoptera insolita R. and H.; Ischnoptera uhleriana fulvescens S. and Z. (in part); Hebard (1917)]

desertae (Rehn and Hebard) [?? of Ischnoptera insolita R. and H.; Hebard (1917)]

divisa (Saussure and Zehntner) [Ischnoptera divisa S. and Z.; Hebard (1917)]

fulvescens (Saussure and Zehntner) [Ischnoptera uhleriana fulvescens S. and Z. (in part); Hebard (1917)]

lata (Brunner) [Ischnoptera couloniana R. and H. (not Saussure); Ischnoptera major R. and H. (not S. and Z.); Hebard (1917)]

notha Rehn and Hebard

pensylvanica (De Geer) (pl. 17, A) [Ischnoptera pennsylvanica Saussure; Hebard (1917)]

uhleriana (Saussure) (pl. 18) [Ischnoptera uhleriana Saussure; Hebard (1917)]

virginica (Brunner) (pls. 17, B; 27, A; 33, C; fig. 6) [Ischnoptera borealis Brunner; Hebard (1917)]

zebra Hebard

Pelmatosilpha coriacea Rehn

kevani Princis

marginalis Brunner

purpurascens (Kirby)

rotundata Scudder

vagabunda Princis

Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus) (pls. 19, 35) [Stylopyga americana; Blatta americana L.; Hebard (1917)]

australasiae (Fabricius) (pls. 20, 32)

brunnea Burmeister (pl. 21)

cavernicola Chopard

fuliginosa (Serville) (pl. 22)

ignota Shaw

lata (Herbst)

Perisphaerus armadillo Serville

glomeriformis (Lucas)

Phaetalia pallida (Brunner)

Phidon (?) dubius Princis

Phlebonotus pallens (Serville)

Pholadoblatta inusitata (Rehn)

Phorticolea boliviae Caudell

testacea BolÍvar

"Phyllodromia" treitliana Werner

Phyllodromica brevipennis (Fischer)

graeca (Brunner)

irinae (Bei-Bienko)

maculata (Schreber)

megerlei (Fieber)

polita (Krauss)

pygmaea (Bei-Bienko)

tartara (Saussure)

tartara nigrescens Bei-Bienko

Platyzosteria analis (Saussure) [Polyzosteria analis Saussure; Kirby (1904)]

armata Tepper

bifida (Saussure)

castanea (Brunner)

novae seelandiae (Brunner) (pl. 23) [Periplaneta fortipes Walker; Shelford (1912); Platyzosteria novae-zealandiae]

scabra (Brunner)

Plectoptera dorsalis (Burmeister)

infulata (Rehn and Hebard)

lacerna Rehn and Hebard

perscita Rehn and Hebard

poeyi (Saussure) [Plectoptera floridana Hebard; Rehn and Hebard (1927)]

porcellana (Saussure)

pygmaea (Saussure)

rhabdota (Rehn and Hebard)

vermiculata Rehn and Hebard

Polyphaga aegyptiaca (Linnaeus) [Blatta aegyptiaca L.; Bei-Bienko (1950). Heterogamia aegyptiaca (L.); Gurney (personal communication, 1957). "Polygamia" aegyptiaca; according to Gurney (p. c.), there is no genus Polygamia and almost surely the reference is to Polyphaga aegyptiaca.]

indica Walker [Polyphaga pellucida (Redtenbacher); Princis (1957)]

saussurei (Dohrn)

Polyzosteria limbata Burmeister

melanaria (Erichson)

Pseudoderopeltis aethiopica (Saussure) [Blatta aethiopica Saussure; Gurney (personal communication, 1957)]

Pseudomops cincta (Burmeister) [Thyrsocera cincta Scudder; Hebard (1917)]

laticornis Perty

septentrionalis Hebard

Pseudophoraspis nebulosa (Burmeister)

Pycnoscelus niger (Brunner)

striatus (Kirby) [Leucophaea striata Kirby; Gurney (personal communication, 1957)]

surinamensis (Linnaeus) (pl. 24) [Leucophaea surinamensis (L.); Hebard (1917). Blatta melanocephala Stoll; Kirby (1904)]

Rhicnoda natatrix Shelford

Rhytidometopum dissimile Princis

Riatia fulgida (Saussure) [Lissoblatta fulgida (Saussure); Gurney (personal communication, 1959)]

orientis Hebard

Robshelfordia circumducta (Walker) [Escala circumducta (Walker); Gurney (personal communication, 1957)]

longiuscula (Walker) [Escala longiuscula (Walker); Gurney (personal communication, 1957)]

Salganea morio (Burmeister)

Sibylloblatta panesthoides (Walker)

Simblerastes jamaicanus Rehn and Hebard

Spelaeoblatta gestroi BolÍvar

Sphecophila polybiarum Shelford

ravana Fernando

termitium Shelford

Steleopyga (?) sinensis Walker [Dr. Gurney (personal communication, 1957) could not find a reference to this species. Walker described species named sinensis in three different genera of cockroaches, and it is uncertain which one this combination represents.]

Stictolampra buqueti concinula (Walker)

Styphon bakeri Rehn

Supella hottentotta (Saussure)

supellectilium (Serville) (pls. 25; 30, B-E; 31, A-E) [Phyllodromia supellectilium (Serv.); Bei-Bienko (1950)]

Symploce breviramis (Hanitsch)

cavernicola (Shelford) [Ischnoptera cavernicola (Shelford); Phyllodromia nigrocincta Chopard; Hebard (1929)]

curta Hanitsch

flagellata Hebard

hospes (Perkins) [Symploce lita Hebard; Hebard (1922)]

jamaicana (Rehn)

kevani Chopard

parenthesis (Gerstaecker) [Phyllodromia parenthesis Gerstaecker; Rehn (1932)]

remyi (Hanitsch) [Ischnoptera remyi Hanitsch; Chopard (1938)]

ruficollis (Fabricius) [Symploce bilabiata Rehn and Hebard; Princis (1949a)]

Tartaroblatta karatavica Bei-Bienko

Temnopteryx obliquetruncata Chopard

phalerata (Saussure)

Theganopteryx straminea Chopard

Therea nuptialis (Gerstaecker) [Corydia nuptialis Gerstaecker; Princis (1950)]

Tivia australica Princis

brunnea (Chopard)

fulva (Burmeister)

macracantha Chopard

obscura (Chopard)

Typhloblatta caeca (Chopard) [Spelaeoblatta caeca Chopard; Chopard (1924b)]

Typhloblattodes madecassus Chopard

Xestoblatta festae (Griffini)

immaculata Hebard


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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