Hemelytroblatta (Mollidentoblatta) fulvopicta (Adelung, 1903) 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 : 31-32

No. 23. Hemelytroblatta (Mollidentoblatta) fulvopicta (Adelung, 1903) , comb. nov.

Figs. 9C,D

Heterogamia gestroyana var. fulvopicta Adelung, 1903: 329 , pl. 20/fig. 15.

Heterogamodes fulvopicta : Chopard 1929: 295, fig. 50, pl. 9/fig. 16.

Arenivaga (Psammoblatta) fulvopicta Princis 1962: 63

Male characters. Wings: tegmina with subcosta lobe.—Femur armament: only mid- and hindfemora with apical spine.—Tibia armament: [1.8.0][7.7.1][11.7.4], dorsal spines of hindtibia evenly distributed.—Tarsal arolia: absent.—Subgenital plate: without styli, Fig. 9C .—Right phallomere: the main dent has a unique structure: the right side of the upper etage is longitudinally split till nearly up to its tip, the additional half arises in an acute angle as a sharp keel on the backside of the dent, R1M sclerite with a longitudinal ridge in full length, but without tubercles, Fig. 9D .

Female: unknown,

Material studied. 1♂, Daua, IV., Ruspoldi, 1892–93 (prep.: Bo 1423) (det. L.Chopard). (M. Genova) .— 1♂, [ Somalia], Lugh , XI–XII.1895, V. Bottego (det. Chopard). (M. Paris) .

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.