Latindiinae Handlirsch, 1925

Qiu, Lu, Che, Yanli & Wang, Zongqing, 2016, Sinolatindiapetila gen. n. and sp. n. from China (Blattodea, Corydiidae, Latindiinae), ZooKeys 596, pp. 27-38 : 29

Taxon classification Animalia Blattodea Corydiidae

Subfamily Latindiinae Handlirsch, 1925

Latindiinae Handlirsch, 1925: 491, designated subfamily with one male Latindia sp., mentioning Latindia and Paralatindia as examples; Rehn 1951: 29; Roth and Slifer 1973: 23; Roth 2003: 34, cited as " Latindiinae Beier"; Pellens and Grandcolas 2008: 18; Djernæs et al. 2015: 297.

Latindiidae Brues & Melander, 1932: 81, key to order Blattariae ; Princis 1960: 437; Princis 1963: 98, catalogue.

Corydiinae Hebard, 1917: 205; Karny 1921: 191; Rehn and Hebard 1927: 280; Bruijining 1959: 18.

Type genus.

Latindia Stål, 1860

Remarks.

Based on former studies ( Handlirsch 1925; Brues and Meander 1932; Rehn 1951), the Latindiinae is characterized as follows: body small, delicate, legs sparsely with spines, cerci long, subgenital plate of female valved or seam divided, venation simple or less branched, tegmina with an irregular network of large cells made by the cross veins, wings with venation reduced but not as extreme as in Holocompsinae .

This subfamily is badly in need of revision. First, recent molecular phylogenetic studies ( Djernæs et al. 2015; Legendre et al. 2015) suggest that the subfamily may be more closely related to Nocticolidae than other Corydiidae . Second, although Princis (1963) listed twelve genera in Latindiidae (now Latindiinae ), the validity of these genera has not been verified. What’s more, Roth (2003) moved the twelve genera listed in Princis (1963) out of Latindiinae , and kept ten of them in Polyphagidae (now Corydiidae ) as subfamily undetermined. This management is also unreasonable, which made Latindiinae without any genera. Third, the definition of Latindiinae is too simple, a careful study on the type genus especially the male genitalia must be done to redefine Latindiinae .