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
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.