Morphna decolyi ( Bolivar, 1897 )

Anisyutkin, Leonid N. & Yushkova, Olga V., 2017, New data on cockroaches of the subfamily Epilamprinae (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae) from India and Sri Lanka, with descriptions of new species and the genital complex of Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784), Zootaxa 4236 (1), pp. 41-64 : 56

Morphna decolyi ( Bolivar, 1897)

( Fig. 9 A, B)

Material. SOUTH INDIA, state Tamil Nadu, Anamalai Hills, Cinchona , 3500 ft., May 1965, coll. P.S. Nathan— 1 male (genital complex in prep. 250716 /02) , 1 female (MMUM).

Description. These specimens morphologically correspond to those described in the previous paper ( Anisyutkin 2014), but the male having the basal part of sclerite L2D (L1) distinctly widened cranially and the tubular structure located near L2D ( Fig. 9 B, t.s.); in the female, the distance between antennal sockets about two times wider that the scape length (1.5 mm).

Measurements (mm). Head length: male 5.7, female 6.6; head width: male 5.0, female 6.2; pronotum length: male 8.0, female 9.8; pronotum width: male 10.8, female 13.2 tegmen length: male 10.0, female 10.5; tegmen width: male 7.6, female 8.8.

Note. The tubular structure shown in Fig. 9 B, t.s. seems to be of glandular nature. It was not reported for M. decolyi by Anisyutkin (2014), because such membranous structures are not usually preserved in old, dry specimens.

Figures

FIGURE 9. Morphna ssp., males: M. decolyi (Bolivar, 1897) (A, B) and M. indica sp. nov. (C – P). A—left hind tibia from outside; B, K—sclerite L 2 D from above; C—facial part of head; D—pronotum and left tegmen from above, outlines; E—right hind tarsus from below; F—abdominal apex from above; G—abdominal apex from caudal, genitalia and hypandrium removed; H—hypandrium from below; I, J—right phallomere from above (I) and below (J); L—apical part of sclerite L 2 D from above; M—sclerite L 3; N – P—apical parts of sclerite L 3. Dotted area shows membranous parts (not shown in fig E). Abbreviations: b. L 3, c. p. R 1 T, d. o., l. o., f. s., p. a., R 2, R 3, R 4, R 5, spi., t. s., u. s. — see text. Scale bar 1 mm: a = A; b = B; c = C; d = D; e = E; f = F; g = G; h = H; i = I, J; j = K; k = L; l = M; m = N – P.