Hiereoblatta papillosa (Thunberg, 1826) comb. n.

Figure 18.

Blatta papillosa Thunberg, 1826: 276; Scudder, 1868: 18.

Monastria papillosa Shelford, 1907 –1908: 467; Kirby, 1910: 565; Princis, 1949: 66; Princis, 1963: 142.

Among all the material examined to revise the genus Monastria was the type of Blatta papillosa Thunberg, 1826 . This species was assigned to Monastria very early and maintained until today after being synonymized several times. As can be seen in the Fig. 18, the coloration, pronotum, head, tegmina and general shape of this specimen does not correspond to those that characterize the genus Monastria . In fact, the general characteristics of this species are in accordance with the genus Hiereoblatta Rehn, 1937 (see Fig. 1D) as described in our identification key. Here, for the sake of delimiting the genus Monastria we propose the new combination Hiereoblatta papillosa . We do not propose here to solve the synonyms of this species because, as was the case for Monastria, the genus Hiereoblatta needs to be revised, and any proposition of solution of the several synonymies would be premature without a careful study.