Blaberus discoidalis (Serville, 1839)

VIDLIČKA, ĽUBOMÍR, 2013, Cockroaches (Blattaria) of Ecuador-checklist and history of research, Zootaxa 3599 (5), pp. 401-445 : 407

Blaberus discoidalis (Serville, 1839)

Synonymy:

Blabera discoidalis Serville, 1839

Blabera varians Serville, 1839

Blabera cubensis Saussure, 1864

Blabera subspurgata Walker, 1868

Blabera rufescens Saussure & Zehntner, 1894

Distribution: Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Vieques Island, Panama,

Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Nicaragua, Ecuador.

Comments to faunistic records in Ecuador:

Scudder (1869:342) ( Blabera cubensis ): 2 specimens, Guayaquil.

Giglio-Tos (1898:15) ( Blabera rufescens ): 1 specimen, La Concepción, Valle del Mira .

Campos (1923:11 and 1926:55) ( Blabera rufescens ): the same locality as mentioned by Giglio-Tos (1898); ( Blabera discoidalis ): Guayaquil, Durán, Naranjito, Barraganetal, Posorja, El Morro, Daule, Bucay, Vinces (leg. F. Campos R.) and the same locality as mentioned by Hebard (1924).

Hebard (1924:130): 2 males, 1 female, Guayaquil, Guayas (leg. F. Campos R.), 1 male, Machala, El Oro (leg. Capt. Moirel) and 1 female, Riobamba , Chimborazo (leg. R. Bourgeois) .

Roth & Willis (1960:75): Ecuador.

Princis (1963:127): Ecuador?.

Roth (1969:240, 248): 1 specimen, Ecuador .

Maes (1992a:23): Ecuador.

Note: Princis (1963:128) marked data of Giglio-Tos and Campos with “?” but Scudder’s and Hebard’s data (with same localities) were not questioned.