Symploce Hebard, 1916

Wang, Zongqing & Che, Yanli, 2013, Three new species of cockroach genus Symploce Hebard, 1916 (Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Blattellinae) with redescriptions of two known species based on types from Mainland China, ZooKeys 337, pp. 1-18 : 3

Symploce Hebard, 1916

Symploce Hebard, 1916: 355; Roth 1984a: 26.

Type species.

Blatta capitata Saussure, 1862.

Diagnosis.

Tegmina and wings fully developed or more or less reduced. Radius vein of hind wing unbranched or branched near the middle; cubitus vein straight to distinctly curved with 1-6 complete and 0-6 incomplete branches; apical triangle absent or present, small or large. Specialization on the male abdominal tergum varies considerably in position and shape or is completely unmodified. Supra-anal plate symmetrical, rarely asymmetrical. Subgenital plate weakly to strongly asymmetrical, rarely symmetrical, with various highly specialized styli. Anteroventral margin of front femur usually Type A3, rarely Type B3 or between Type A and B. Tarsal claws symmetrical, unspecialized.

Note.

It is proposed that Symploce quadrispinis Feng & Woo, Symploce stellatus Feng & Woo, 1999 and Symploce wulingensis Feng & Woo should be transferred to Episymploce . Plus one known species, Symploce jianfengensis Feng, 2002, which was not recorded in the catalogue by Beccaloni (2007), also should be transferred to Episymploce (Wang at al. in press).

Distribution.

Oriental, Australian, African and Palaearctic Regions.

Key to species of Symploce from Mainland China (Males)