Espécies novas de Blaptica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil (Blattaria, Blaberidae, Blaberinae)

Abstract

ABSTRACT. New species of Blaptica from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Blattaria, Blaberidae, Blaberinae). Five new species of Blaptica Stål, 1875 from Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil are described and illustrations of Blaptica dubia are presented. KEYWORDS.New species, Blaptica dubia, taxonomy. Blaptica confusa sp. nov. (Figs. 2, 8,14, 20, 27, 28) Coloração geral castanho-clara, brilhante. Coloração castanho-escura (1) no pronoto: contorno, faixa centro-basal e manchas irregulares, algumas delas em baixo relevo (fig. 8); (2) na cabeça: espaço interocular mais claro em direção à fronte; (3) na região entre e abaixo da base das antenas; (4) na base do clípeo (fig. 2); (5) nas tégminas, no tronco inicial de todas as nervuras; (6) nas RESUMO. Cinco novas espécies de

First field record of an introduced pet‐feeder cockroach, Blaptica dubia (Serville, 1838) (Blattidae, Blaberinae), in a temperate zone of Japan

“…S1 a-d) and male genital structures ( Fig. S1 e-j), including important taxonomic characteristics such as the color patterns of the head and pronotum, the shape of the pronotum, and the male genital chitinous parts, corresponded well with the examples of B. dubia described and shown in Lopes and de Oliveira (2005) and González et al (2019). Furthermore, the body measurements (Table S2) also fitted well with the B. dubia specimens shown in González et al (2019).…”

“…The dubia roach or orange spotted roach, Blaptica dubia (Serville 1838), is an ovoviviparous cockroach species found in tropical South America (Lopes & de Oliveira 2005;Beccaloni 2014). It is commercially traded all over the world both as a pet and as a live feeder insect (Wu 2013), even though the governments of places such as Florida, California, Louisiana, Hawaii (USDA 2018) and Canada have prohibited the trade and import of the species.…”