Hemelytroblatta (Mollidentoblatta) curtipennis ( Chopard, 1929 ) Bohn, 2024

Bohn, Horst, 2024, The spine armament of the legs as an important means for the characterisation of the genera of Corydiinae and their relationships (Blattodea, Corydiidae), Zootaxa 5482 (1), pp. 1-79 : 31

No. 20. Hemelytroblatta (Mollidentoblatta) curtipennis ( Chopard, 1929) , comb. nov.

Fig, 9G

Heterogamodes curtipennis Chopard, 1929: 306 , pl. 9/fig. 20.

Arenivaga (Psammoblatta) curtipennis : Bey-Bienko 1950: 307; Princis 1962: 66.

Hemelytroblatta curtipennis : Grandcolas 1994a: 157.

Male characters. Wings: slightly shortend, tegmina with subcosta lobe.—Tibia armament: [1.8.0][7.7.2][10.7.5], dorsal spines of hindtibia ± evenly distributed. The left midtibia of the type specimen has the unusual number of 9 dorsal spines. The four instead of five tarsal segments of the leg indicate that it is an artefact caused by a loss and subsquent regeneration of the leg.—Tarsal arolia: present.—Subgenital plate: with strong bristles only along the posterior margin, styli present (figure not available).—Right phallomere: Fig. 9G .

Female: unknown,

Material studied. Type, 1♂, Arkanan, Dr. Krüper (prep.: Bo 1428). (M. Berlin) .

Figures

FIGURE 9 A–F. Subgenital plate (at the left, ventral view) and posterior part of the right phallomere (at the right: B,F, standard view, D ventral view) of male.—Species: A,B: Mollidentoblatta ebneri. (A) Bo 1333; (B) Bo 1394; C,D: M. fulvopicta, Bo 1423; E,F: M. gestroiana, Holotype, Bo 1424.—G,H. Right phallomere of species: G: M. curtipennis, Bo 1428, standard view; H: M. aethiopica, Bo 1427, ventral view.—Phallomere type: Type 2 in all corresponding figures.—Explanations: R1M, R2, R3 sclerites of the right phallomere, MD main dent of R2, stepped, ue its upper etage, extremely large in (F), with the upper part rolled in.—Enlargements: Scale 0,25 mm.