Haplosymploce Hanitsch, 1933

Zheng, Yuhong, Li, Xinran & Wang, Zongqing, 2016, A taxonomic report on the cockroach genus Haplosymploce Hanitsch from China including one new species (Blattodea: Ectobiidae: Blattellinae), Zootaxa 4066 (2), pp. 161-170 : 162

Genus Haplosymploce Hanitsch, 1933 , new record from China

Haplosymploce Hanitsch, 1933: 236 ; Princis 1969: 875; Roth 1997: 89. Type species: Ischnoptera nigra Hanitsch, 1928 , selected by Princis 1951: 56.

Diagnosis (principally after Roth 1997). Tegmen and hindwing fully developed. R of tegmen without posterior branch, mediocubital branches longitudinal or slightly oblique. R of hindwing without posterior branch; CuA oblique or slightly sigmoid with 3–5 complete branches and 0–4 incomplete branches; apical triangle absent. Front femur type A or B (in cases varied intraspecifically); tarsal pulvilli present on 1–4 proximal tarsomeres; claws simple and symmetrical; arolia small. Male: T1 and T7 specialized or only T1 with a middle gland. Paraprocts dissimilar; each side of supraanal plate with an intercercal process near the base of cercus. Subgenital plate asymmetrical, all species similar; styli similar, small, cylindrical, length equal or slightly unequal. Sclerite of the left phallomere (L3) hook-like, on the left side, with a preapical incision; middle sclerite (L2vm) rod-like.

Distribution ( Fig. 1 ). China (Yunnan and Hainan), Andaman Islands, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi.

Remarks. The holotype of H. moultoni is a female, its colour and pattern of the tegmina and wings are similar to those of H. bicolor ; therefore they may be synonyms ( Roth, 1997).

Haplosymploce is recorded from Southeast Asia and South China but no record is from the Indochinese Peninsula (in the narrower sense) ( Fig. 1 ); this may be a result of the absence of specimens from this area or the lack of taxonomic works. Particularly, it could be inferred that H. andamanica should distribute in Burma since it is a transitional area between China and Andaman, from which this species is recorded.

Figures

FIGURE 1. The distribution of Haplosymploce. Species are indicated by numbers: 1 H. andamanica, 2 H. aurantiaca sp. n., 3 H. bicolor, 4 H. castanea, 5 H. curta, 6 H. montis, 7 H. moultoni, 8 H. nigra, 9 H. pica, 10 H. reversa, 11 H. ruficollis.