Hemelytroblatta Explained

Hemelytroblatta is a genus of mostly Palaearctic cockroaches, in the subfamily Corydiinae, erected by Lucien Chopard in 1929.^[1] Species are distributed mostly in: North Africa, eastern Mediterranean countries through to central Asia; the type species, Hemelytroblatta cypria is found only on Cyprus.^[2]

Species

The Cockroach Species File^[2] lists:

1. Hemelytroblatta aethiopica (Chopard, 1929)
2. Hemelytroblatta afghana (Bey-Bienko, 1967)
3. Hemelytroblatta africana (Linnaeus, 1758)
4. Hemelytroblatta arenarum (Chopard, 1929)
5. Hemelytroblatta cerverae (Bolívar, 1886)
6. Hemelytroblatta curtipennis (Chopard, 1929)
7. Hemelytroblatta cypria Chopard, 1929 - type species
8. Hemelytroblatta dumonti (Chopard, 1929)
9. Hemelytroblatta ebneri (Chopard, 1929)
10. Hemelytroblatta fulvopicta (Adelung, 1903)
11. Hemelytroblatta fuscipennis (Chopard, 1929)
12. Hemelytroblatta gestroiana (Saussure, 1895)
13. Hemelytroblatta incerta (Chopard, 1929)
14. Hemelytroblatta intermedia (Chopard, 1929)
15. Hemelytroblatta latifrons (Chopard, 1929)
16. Hemelytroblatta livida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
17. Hemelytroblatta longipes (Chopard, 1929)
18. Hemelytroblatta marismortui (Janson, 1891)
19. Hemelytroblatta minuta (Bey-Bienko, 1935)
20. Hemelytroblatta oblonga (Chopard, 1929)
21. Hemelytroblatta pilosella (Saussure, 1895)
22. Hemelytroblatta polyphagella (Bey-Bienko, 1963)
23. Hemelytroblatta roseni (Brancsik, 1898)
24. Hemelytroblatta rugosa (Schulthess, 1894)
25. Hemelytroblatta senegalensis (Chopard, 1929)
26. Hemelytroblatta subhyalina (Chopard, 1921)
27. Hemelytroblatta zavattarii (Salfi, 1935)
28. Hemelytroblatta zolotarevskyi (Chopard, 1940)

Notes and References

1. Chopard L (1929) Eos 5: 344.
2. http://cockroach.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1178029 Cockroach Species File