Nyctibora dichropoda Hebard, 1926

Evangelista, Dominic A., Chan, Kimberly, Kaplan, Kayla L., Wilson, Megan M. & Ware, Jessica L., 2015, The Blattodeas. s. (Insecta, Dictyoptera) of the Guiana Shield, ZooKeys 475, pp. 37-87 : 53-54

Taxon classification Animalia Blattodea Ectobiidae

Nyctibora dichropoda Hebard, 1926

Materials.

Adult ♂ Figure 12.

Voucher number: DECBA0302.

GenBank accession number: KF155061.

Collection locale. CEIBA Biological Station, Madewini, Guyana.

GPS: 6°29'N, 58°13'W.

Collection date: 29 - July - 2011.

Collectors. Dominic A. Evangelista, Ian Biazzo, Manpreet K. Kohli, Melissa Sanchez-Herrera, Nicole Sroczinski and Jessica L. Ware.

Collection/ecological information.

This specimen was collected in the leaf litter.

Morphological identification.

This specimen matches the illustration and description by Hebard (1926) in the "striking pale" coloration on the surfaces of the tibiae, the definitive character for this species. However, the male we have is much larger than that which he described. It is matching in all other ways.

Molecular identification.

The COI barcodes of this specimen are close to an adult female (Voucher number: DECBA0235; GenBank accession number: KF155062) and juvenile specimen (Voucher number: DECBA0104; GenBank accession number: KF155024) of Nyctibora . Based on both genetic distance and morphological dissimilarity, these individuals are likely members of a separate species. We do not report them further here.

Known geographic distribution.

Guyana (new record), Suriname and French Guiana.