Litoblatta brasiliensis ( Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865 )

Valverde, Alejandra Del Carmen & Crespo, Francisco A., 2021, Four new species of Litoblatta from Argentina with a key to species based on males (Blattaria: Ectobiidae: Blattellinae), Zootaxa 4941 (4), pp. 553-568 : 560

Litoblatta brasiliensis ( Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

( Figs. 27–33 , 72 )

Ischnoptera brasiliensis Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865: 130 , tab III. fig. 12, Loboptera laurenziana Giglio-Tos 1897: 2 , Litoblatta brasiliensis Hebard 1921: 238 , pl. 10, figs. 14–17. Litoblatta brasiliensis Crespo & Valverde 2008: 173 , fig.16, Litoblatta brasiliensis Crespo et al. 2010 : 7,8, 24, fig. 3.

Material examined. ARGENTINA. 2♁, locality, date and coll. missing ( MLP) . Province of Córdoba: ♁, locality missing, 20/XI/1948, López P. coll. ( IFML) . Province of Corrientes: ♁, San Cayetano , II /2009, Patittucci L. coll. ( FCEN) ; 2♁, Departamento T. de Apóstol, Manantiales , XI/1946, coll. missing, ( IFML) . Province of La Rioja: ♁, locality missing, 28/X/1930, Gómez M. coll. ( MACN) . Province of Salta: ♁, Forestal (35 km from J.B. González), 18/XII/1979, Leg. Turk S. & Fonollat P. ( IFML) .

Diagnosis. Right paraproct with a group of long spines, apically divergent ( Fig. 28 ). Right stylus with rounded apex ( Figs. 29–30 ). R1P with a quadrangular scale zone sz distally ( Figs. 33 , 72 ).

Male. Measurements in mm. N= 8. PL: 3.00‾3.66; TeL: 12.61‾15.27; TL: 15.43‾18.33; IO: 0.70‾0.80; IOc: 0.40‾0.80; IA: 0.80‾0.90. Supra anal plate apical margin with a medial notch ( Fig. 27 ). Right stylus with rounded apex ( Figs. 29–30 ). Right paraproct with a group of long spines, apically divergent ( Fig. 28 ). R1P with a quadrangular scale zone sz distally ( Figs. 31–33 , 72 ).

Female. Apterous, described by Hebard 1921. Our female specimens could not be associated with males.

Distribution. Argentina-Provinces of Córdoba, Corrientes, La Rioja and Salta.

Figures

FIGURES 27‒33. Litoblatta brasiliensis. 27. Supra anal plate apical margin with a median notch, dorsal view. 28. Right paraproct with long spines apically divergent on the internal basal border, ventral view. 29–30. Right stylus with rounded apex, ventral view. 31–32. Subgenital plate and genitalic sclerites, dorsal view. 33. Right complex R with a quadrangular scale zone sz, dorsal view.

FIGURES 68‒74. Schemes of the sclerite R1P with the convex scale zone sz, dorsal view. 68. Litoblatta lutea sp.nov. 69. L. elisae sp. nov. 70. L. misionerae sp. nov. 71. L. tucumanae sp. nov. 72. L. brasiliensis. 73. L. argentina. 74. L. clara.