Euphyllodromia amazonensis Rocha E Silva Albuquerque, 1984

Evangelista, Dominic A., Sylvain, Erdine, Mendoza, Ciara Mae & Guzman, Kimberly, 2016, New and enigmatic cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattodea) of Guyana, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 2249-2276 : 2273-2274

Euphyllodromia amazonensis Rocha E Silva Albuquerque, 1984

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1 adult male. Voucher number: DEIWO0173 . Collection locality: Iwokrama River Lodge, Iwokrama Forest, Guyana . GPS: 4°43 ʹ 58 ʺ N, 58°43 ʹ 4 ʺ W. Collection date: December 2014. Collectors: D. Evangelista, M. Davis, M. Johnny, M. Carter, O. Ambrose.

Collection/ecological information

This individual and other individuals that escaped collection were seen sitting on foliage in primary forest understory during the day.

Morphological identification

This specimen was easily identified by comparing the pronotal pattern and subgenital plate shape to the illustration of Rocha E Silva Albuquerque (1984).

Known geographic distribution

Guyana (new record), Brazil (Jutai and Manaus)

Conclusions

Adding the species we report here ( Table 5) to those listed in Evangelista et al. (2015) there are now 105 species known from Guyana (previously 96) and 238 species known from the entire Guiana Shield (previously 234). An updated checklist of the cockroaches of the Guiana Shield is provided in supplementary documentation 1.

Figures

Figure 13. Euphyllodromia amazonensis Rocha E Silva Albuquerque, 1984. Adult male. Voucher number: DEIWO0173. (a) Dorsal body. (b) Head, ventral. (c) Male sub-genital plate.