REVISION OF THE MEGERLEI-GROUP OF THE COCKROACH GENUS PHYLLODROMICA FIEBER (BLATTARIA, BLATTELLIDAE, ECTOBIINAE)

Authors
VIDLICKA L MAJZLAN O
Citation
L. Vidlicka et O. Majzlan, REVISION OF THE MEGERLEI-GROUP OF THE COCKROACH GENUS PHYLLODROMICA FIEBER (BLATTARIA, BLATTELLIDAE, ECTOBIINAE), Entomologica Scandinavica, 28(2), 1997, pp. 163-173
Citations number
44
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Entomologica Scandinavica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00138711
Volume
28
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
163 - 173
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-8711(1997)28:2<163:ROTMOT>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
The species of the megerlei-group are characterised by shortened wings with typical scattered dark spots and large simple glands on tergite 7 without inner structures. Two of the species are widely distributed from south-eastern Germany to Romania and Ukraine (P. megerlei Fieber) or from Turkey to Syria (P. asiatica Bey-Bienko), the third is endemi c for eastern Bulgaria (P. pulcherrima sp. n.). The characteristics of the megerlei-group are described and the relationships with the tyrrh enica-group are discussed.