Balta Tepper, 1893

Qiu, Zhi-Wei, Che, Yan-Li, Zheng, Yu-Hong & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2017, The cockroaches of Balta Tepper from China, with the description of four new species (Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Pseudophyllodromiinae), ZooKeys 714, pp. 13-32 : 14-15

Balta Tepper, 1893

Balta Tepper, 1893: 39. Type species: Balta epilamproides Tepper, 1893: 39. Kirby 1904: 106; Shelford 1908: 19; Hebard 1943: 37; Princis 1951: 68; 1969: 968; Roth 1991: 967; Che et al. 2010: 56.

Mareta Bolívar, 1895: 371. Type species: Mareta conspicienda Bolívar; by monotype. Kirby 1904: 97; Shelford 1908: 10 (under Phyllodromia synonymy); Rehn 1922: 14; Hebard 1929: 18; Rehn 1931: 300. Synonymized with Balta by Princis 1969: 968.

Eoblatta Shelford, 1911: 155 (nec Eoblatta Handlirsch, 1906). Type species: Blatta notulata Stål, 1860; by monotype. Hebard 1917: 26. As a synonym of Balta in Beccaloni 2014.

Allactina Hebard, 1929: 18 (nec Allactina Curran, 1924). Type species: Allactina jacobsoni Hebard, 1929. Synonymized with Balta by Princis 1969: 968.

Graptoblatta Hebard, 1929: 23. Type species: Blatta notulata Stål, 1860. Princis 1969: 957 (as a synonym of Lupparia ). Synonymized with Balta by Princis 1969: 968.

Diagnosis.

See Che et al. (2010).

Discussion.

The characters of L. nodigera Bey-Bienko and L. valida Bey-Bienko were compared with the generic diagnosis of Lupparia : the hind wing of the two species with the apical triangle small or not distinct differs from the main generic characters of Lupparia , and are consistent with Balta . The two species also share the following characters: 1) abdominal tergites unspecialized, tarsal claws strongly asymmetrical and unspecialized; 2) median phallomere appendage present and with brush-like structure; 3) front femur type B or C, which are also consistent with Balta . Therefore the two species are transferred to the genus Balta .

Checklist of Balta species from China

B. barbellata Che & Chen, 2010 China (Hainan)

B. curvirostris Che & Chen, 2010 China (Hainan)

B. crena sp. n. China (Yunnan)

B. dissecta Che & Wang, 2010 China (Fujian)

B. hwangorum Bey-Bienko, 1958 China (Yunnan)

B. jinlinorum Che & Wang, 2010 South China

B. maculata sp. n. China (Yunnan)

B. nodigera (Bey-Bienko, 1958), comb. n. China (Yunnan)

B. notulata Stål, 1860 (Oriental region islands, Indian Ocean islands, Korean Peninsula, Australasian islands)

B. spinea Che & Chen, 2010 China (Hainan)

B. spinescens Che & Wang, 2010 (Southeast China)

B. tangi sp. n. China (Yunnan)

B. valida (Bey-Bienko, 1958), comb. n. China (Yunnan)

B. vilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865 (Southeast Asia, East Asia)

B. yaoi sp. n. China (Yunnan)

Key to species of Balta from China (males)