Aptera fusca ( Thunberg, 1784 )

Anisyutkin, Leonid N. & Yushkova, Olga V., 2017, New data on cockroaches of the subfamily Epilamprinae (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae) from India and Sri Lanka, with descriptions of new species and the genital complex of Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784), Zootaxa 4236 (1), pp. 41-64 : 43-46

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.1.2

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23412386-CB17-49CA-9C47-BD71DD9C5372

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6015692

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scientific name

Aptera fusca ( Thunberg, 1784 )
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Aptera fusca ( Thunberg, 1784) View in CoL

( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A, B, 2A–G)

Material. SOUTH AFRICA, "620 73 Cap b. sp. Mr. Brady", " Perisphaeria cingulata Burm. ♀ ", "Brady, Cap.", genital complex in prep. 250814 /01 —1 female (MHNG).

Description. Female. Specimen generally corresponded to the previous description ( Anisyutkin 2015). It can be complemented by the following details.

Abdomen without visible specializations. Caudo-lateral outgrowths of tergite VIII poorly expressed, spiracles located on the lateral margins of tergite ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 A, B, E, spr.). Anal plate (tergite X) transverse, caudal margin widely rounded ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A, 2A). Cerci strongly shortened, conical, traces of segmentation very poorly visible on a large magnification only ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A, 2A, B, E), densely covered with bristles from below ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A). Paraprocts large and rounded, uniformly sclerotized ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A, 2D, E, par.), with poorly expressed membranous area at the craniomedial angles ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 D, m.a.). Genital plate transverse, caudally projected ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 C).

Ovipositor and adjacent structures ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A, B, 2D–G). Intercalary sclerite absent. Tergal processes of abdominal segment VIII absent; those of abdominal segment IX fully developed, heavily sclerotized and curved ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A, B, 2D, E, G, teIX). Gonangulum distinct, heavily sclerotized ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A, B, 2D, F, G, gg.). All valves of ovipositor look like membranous lobes; first valves large, without distinct rows of setae along the inner side (small setae visible at a large magnification only) and sclerotized parts ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A, B, 2F, D, v.I.); second valves slightly shorter than first or third, not hidden under third pair of valves ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A, B, 2F, D, v.II.); third valves not widened ( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 A, B, 2, F, D, v.III.); 2nd and 3rd pairs of valves with slender rod-like sclerites fused at base of valves ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 F, D, rod. s.); sclerotized lobes look like thin sclerites ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 F, pl.). Anterior arch of second valvifer heavily sclerotized, as in Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 F, G, a.a. Basivalvulae transformed into two asymmetrical heavily sclerotized sclerites ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A, B, 2D, G, bsv.). Vestibular sclerite and other sclerotized structures absent. Brood sac large, without sclerotized structures.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Blattodea

Family

Blaberidae

Genus

Aptera

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