Holocompsa Explained

Holocompsa is a genus of hairy sand cockroaches in the family Corydiidae. It is the only genus in the subfamily Holocompsinae.^[1]

Distribution

Eight of 11 species of the genus Holocompsa are found in the Americas; two species are found in Asia, H. debilis and H. zhangi; and one species is found in Africa, H. pusilla.^[2]

Species

The following species have been described:^[3]

• Holocompsa azteca (Saussure, 1862)
• Holocompsa binotata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894)
• Holocompsa cyanea (Burmeister, 1838)
• Holocompsa debilis (Walker, 1868)
• Holocompsa nitidula (Fabricius, 1781)
• Holocompsa panamae (Hebard, 1920)
• Holocompsa pusilla (Bolívar, 1924)
• Holocompsa scotaea (Hebard, 1922)
• Holocompsa tolteca (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894)
• Holocompsa zapoteca (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894)
• Holocompsa zhangi (Qiu, Wang, & Che, 2020)

Notes and References

1. Gutiérrez . E. . 1995 . Annotated Checklist of Cuban Cockroaches . Transactions of the American Entomological Society . 121 . 1/2 . 65–85 . JSTOR.
2. Qiu . L. . Wang . Z. -Q. . Che . Y. -L. . 2020 . Discovery of the second Asian Holocompsa species from China, and supplemental description of the male of H. debilis (Blattodea: Corydiidae: Euthyrrhaphinae) . Annales de la Société entomologique de France . Nouvelle Série . 56 . 6 . 481–487 . 10.1080/00379271.2020.1852889.
3. Web site: genus Holocompsa Burmeister, 1838: Cockroach Species File . Cockroach Species File.