Balta nodigera (Bey-Bienko, 1958) Bey-Bienko, 1958

Qiu, Zhi-Wei, Che, Yan-Li, Zheng, Yu-Hong & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2017, The cockroaches of Balta Tepper from China, with the description of four new species (Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Pseudophyllodromiinae), ZooKeys 714, pp. 13-32 : 25-28

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.714.14041

publication LSID

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scientific name

Balta nodigera (Bey-Bienko, 1958)
status

comb. n.

Balta nodigera (Bey-Bienko, 1958) comb. n. Figs 11, 12, 76-87

Onychostylus nodiger Bey-Bienko, 1958: 679 (Type locality: Yunnan, China).

Lupparia nodigera : Princis 1969: 960.

Material examined.

Deposited in IESWU. China, Fujian Prov.: 1 male, Putian, 7 June 1979, coll. Jingying Liu; 1 male, Putian, 5 July 1978, coll. Bangkan Huang.

Redescription.

Male. Body medium-size, yellowish brown (Figs 11, 12). Third and fourth maxillary palpomeres yellowish brown, the fifth light brown. Pronotum yellowish brown and disk with two unobvious black spots, lateral borders hyaline. Tegmina and hind wings light brown. Abdomen brown. Third and fifth maxillary palpomeres almost same length, distinctly longer (Fig. 77). Tegmen with M and CuA oblique (Fig. 79). Hind wing with small triangle apical, CuA with four complete branches and without incomplete ones (Fig. 80). Front femur type C2 (Fig. 81), tarsal claws strongly asymmetrical and unspecialized (Fig. 82). Abdominal tergites unspecialized.

Male genitalia.

Supra-anal plate posterior margin slightly convex in the middle, paraprocts simple (Fig. 83). Subgenital plate in ventral view with hind margins strong ly emarginated in the middle, conical styli located on the distal of lateral lobes, ventral side of subgenital plate with some fine spines (Fig. 84). Hook-like phallomere on right side, the hook structure short and thick (Fig. 85). Median phallomere sticklike, thick and strong at base, apex with two different size spines; one associated median phallomere appendage stronger and with setae at apex, (Fig. 86). Left phallomere with left side apex spine-like (Fig. 87).

Measurements (mm).

Overall length male 14.5; tegmen length male 12.0; pronotum length × width male 3.0 × 4.0.

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Yunnan).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Blattodea

Family

Ectobiidae

Genus

Balta