Rhabdoblattella Explained

Rhabdoblattella is a genus of South East Asian cockroaches in the family Blaberidae, erected by L.N. Anisyutkin in 1999.^[1] It was subsequently placed in the monotypic subfamily Rhabdoblattellinae^[2] (it had been placed previously in the Epilamprinae) from which the species R. annamensis had been transferred from the similar genus Rhabdoblatta. Species records are from Indochina and China.^[3]

Species

The Cockroach Species File^[3] includes two species groups:

Rhabdoblattella supersp. cambodiensis Wang, Yang & Wang, 2017^[4]

1. Rhabdoblattella annamensis (Hanitsch, 1927)
2. Rhabdoblattella cambodiensis Anisyutkin, 1999 - type species
3. Rhabdoblattella delicata Anisyutkin, 1999
4. Rhabdoblattella hainanensis Wang, Yang & Wang, 2017
5. Rhabdoblattella vietnamensis Anisyutkin, 1999

Rhabdoblattella supersp. disparis Wang, Yang & Wang, 2017

1. Rhabdoblattella disparis Wang, Yang & Wang, 2017

External links

• Researchgate article with photos
• Plazi.org Figures

Notes and References

1. Anisyutkin LN (1999) New cockroaches of the subfamily Epilamprinae, with description of a new genus Rhabdoblattella (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 8(2), 251–255.
2. Wang Y-S, Zhang J, Lo N, Bourguignon T, Guo L, Li B-L, Che Y-L, Wang Z-Q (2023) Phylogenetic analysis of Blaberoidea reveals non-monophyly of taxa and supports the creation of multiple new subfamilies. Cladistics, 39(3), 198–214. DOI
3. https://cockroach.speciesfile.org/otus/857179/overview Cockroach Species File: genus Rhabdoblattella Anisyutkin, 1999 (retrieved 21 October 2023)
4. Wang Z, Yang R, Wang Z-Q (2017) First record of Rhabdoblattella (Blaberidae, Epilamprinae) from China with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa, 4294(3), 381–388.