Lucihormetica Zompro & Fritzsche, 1999

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 : 162

Genus Lucihormetica Zompro & Fritzsche, 1999

Diagnosis. The genus Lucihormetica includes twelve species of robust cockroaches that were separated from the genus Hormetica based on the presence of two very conspicuous protuberant yellow spots on pronotal disc. The name refers to bioluminescence of these yellow spots, but their luminosity is controversial till now ( Vršanský et al. 2012, Vršanský & Chorvát 2013, Greven & Zwanzig 2013, Merritt 2013).

Distribution: Amazonian rain forest—Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru ( 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.