Morphna Shelford, 1910

Anisyutkin, Leonid N., 2014, On cockroaches of the subfamily Epilamprinae (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae) from South India and Sri Lanka, with descriptions of new taxa, Zootaxa 3847 (3), pp. 301-332 : 309

Genus Morphna Shelford, 1910

Type species: Epilampra maculata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865 . By subsequent designation.

Note. The genus Morphna originally included four species from South and South-East Asia ( Shelford 1910, p. 6, 7): Epilampra amplipennis Walker , E. plana Brunner von Wattenwyl, E. maculata Brunner von Watenwyl and E. badia Brunner von Wattenwyl (= E. dotata Walker ). E. maculata was designated as the type species by Hebard (1930). The male genitalia of M. dotata were described and illustrated by Anisyutkin & Gorochov (2001).

According to Beccaloni (2007), there are 12 species in the genus Morphna : M. amplipennis (Walker) , M. auriculata (Brunner von Wattenwyl), M. badia (Brunner von Wattenwyl), M. clypeata Anisyutkin & Gorochov , M. decolyi (Bolivar) , M. dotata (Walker) , M. humeralis (Bruijning) , M. imperatoria (Stål) , M. maculata (Brunner von wattenwyl), M. moloch (Rehn) , M. plana (Brunner von Wattenwyl) and M. pustulata (Hanitsch) .