Hemelytroblatta (Mollidentoblatta) gestroiana (Saussure, 1895) 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 : 32

No. 25. Hemelytroblatta (Mollidentoblatta) gestroiana (Saussure, 1895) , comb. nov.

Figs. 9E,F

Heterogamia gestroiana Saussure, 1895: 81 .

Heterogamodes gestroiana : Chopard 1929: 291, figs. 48,49, pl. 9/fig. 14.

Arenivaga (Psammoblatta) gestroiana : Bey-Bienko 1950: 300; Princis 1962: 61.

Male characters. Wings: tegmina with subcostal lobe.—Femur armament: all femora with an apical spine, that of the fronttibia strongly reduced.—Tibia armament: [1.8.0][7.7.1][11.7.5], dorsal spines of hindtibia evenly distributed.—Tarsal arolia: present.—Subgenital plate: without styli, Fig. 9E .—Right phallomere: R1 M with a short ridge on its most posterior part, without tubercles, Fig. 9F .

Female: Chopard 1929, 292.

Material studied. Holotype, ♂, Boran Galla, Alto Daua, V.93., V. Bottego (prep.: Bo 1424). (M. Genova).

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.