Hormetica Burmeister, 1838

Vidlička, Ľubomír, 2019, New genus and species of cockroaches from the tribe Brachycolini (Blattaria Blaberidae: Blaberinae) and redescription of the Hormetica strumosa, Zootaxa 4651 (1), pp. 155-172 : 166

Genus Hormetica Burmeister, 1838

Diagnosis. The genus Hormetica includes fourteen large species where pronotal disc of male specimens is very characteristic in colour and in protuberant shape. Tegmina are coriaceous, usually do not reach the end of abdomen in except to H. luteomarginata Bruijning, 1949 and H. strumosa . In two species, H. brunneri ( Saussure & Zehntner, 1895) and H. marmorata ( Saussure, 1869) , are known only females, and descriptions of species H. bicolor (Brunner v. W., 1865) and H. ventralis Burmeister, 1838 are probably based on later nymphal instars.

Distribution: Amazonian and Atlantic rain forests—Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina (?), Venezuela (?) ( Fig. 12 )

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FIGURE 12. Distribution of cockroach species of genera Hormetica, Lucihormetica and Quadrihormetica in South America. Dot—locality of occurrence; line—distribution areal.