Pseudophoraspis kabakovi Anisyutkin, 1999

Wang, Zhenzhen, Zhao, Qiongyao, Li, Weijun, Che, Yanli & Wang, Zongqing, 2018, Establishment of a new genus, Brephallus Wang et al., gen. nov. (Blattodea, Blaberidae, Epilamprinae) based on two species from Pseudophoraspis, with details of polymorphism in species of Pseudophoraspis, ZooKeys 785, pp. 117-131 : 117

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.785.26565

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scientific name

Pseudophoraspis kabakovi Anisyutkin, 1999
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Pseudophoraspis kabakovi Anisyutkin, 1999 View in CoL Figures 2 O–R, 3 A–B, 4C, 5 E–F

Note.

The male of P. kabakovi was described (Figures 2 O–P, 4C, 5E) by Anisyutkin (1999) and Wang et al. (2013), but little was known about the female and nymph until now.

Materials examined.

China: Yunnan: One male, Xishuangbanna, 1974.IV.13, coll. Yao Zhou and Feng Yuan; twenty males, five females and one nymph, Xishuangbanna, Menglun Town, 2016.V.27, coll. Lu Qiu and Zhi-Wei Qiu; one male and two females, Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Wangtianshu, 2016.V.23, coll. Lu Qiu and Zhi-Wei Qiu.

Female description

(Figures 2 Q–R, 5F). Body yellowish brown. Eyes and antennae black, ocellar spots pale yellow. Pronotum with dense small brown spots. Tegmina with scattered large black spots. Abdominal sterna with small and fewer large black dots, large black dots along the hind margins of the segments. Cerci brown.

Similar to male in general appearance, but shorter and convex. Tegmina and wings shorter than in males. Fore femur with six spines along anterior margin and one single apical spine. Hind metatarsus with two rows of spines along most of its length. Claws symmetrical, simple; arolium well developed. Abdominal terga unspecialized. Supra-anal plate caudal margin with a medial V-shaped excavation. Hypandrium posterior margin emarginate near mid-line.

Female measurements.

Overall length 32 ± 0.2 mm; head length × width: 4.2 ± 0.1 mm × 3.6 ± 0.1 mm; pronotum length × width: 8.3 ± 0.2 mm × 12.1 ± 0.2 mm; tegmina length × width: 25.4 ± 0.1 mm × 10.3 ± 0.2 mm.

Nymph.

Identical to adult females of P. recurvata and P. clavellata except for undeveloped wing (Figure 3 A–B).

Known geographic range.

China (Yunnan); Vietnam.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Blattodea

Family

Blaberidae

Genus

Pseudophoraspis