Dziriblatta, Bohn, 2019

Bohn, Horst, 2019, Revision of the genus Dziriblatta Chopard, 1936 (Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Ectobiinae) from North Africa, Spain, and the Macaronesian islands. I. The nine subgenera of the genus, Zootaxa 4610 (1), pp. 1-73 : 24

Dziriblatta , subgen. nov.

Type species. Same as in the genus.

Species. Two species known, several new species from Spain and Morocco to be described.

Dziriblatta (Dziriblatta) algerica ( Bolívar 1881) , comb. nov.

Dziriblatta (Dziriblatta) bolivari Chopard, 1936a , comb. nov.

Distribution:. Southern Spain; in northern Morocco in the Riff mountains, in the south following the Middle and High Atlas up to Marrakech; in northern Algeria in the Tel-Atlas up to Algier in the east ( Figs. 27 , 29, 32).

Diagnosis. Male characterized by the long lobes of the pouch of T7 gland surpassing the anterior border of T7 considerably, distinguished from subgenus Macaroblatta with in some cases similar pouches by the single spine on the left paraproct; subgenus Sulcoblatta , which also has rather long pouches, differs by having two pairs of pouches and a T6 with a gutter at the lateral margins.

Figures

Fig. 27. Distribution of subgenera of Dziriblatta outside Morocco. Sculptoblatta has a similar distribution as subgenus Dziriblatta reaching from central Morocco eastward as far as middle Algeria. The wide gap between the two populations of Pauciscleroblatta is certainly due to insufficient sampling in the area in between.