Margattea hemiptera Bey-Bienko, 1958

Wang, Jinjin, Li, Xinran, Wang, Zongqing & Che, Yanli, 2014, Four new and three redescribed species of the cockroach genus Margattea Shelford, 1911 (Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Pseudophyllodromiinae) from China, Zootaxa 3827 (1), pp. 31-44 : 43

7. Margattea hemiptera Bey-Bienko, 1958

Figs. 12–13

Margattea hemiptera Bey-Bienko, 1958: 586 .

Description. Overall length including tegmen: ♂ 7.6mm; pronotum length × width: ♂ 2.2× 3.5mm; tegmen length: ♂ 3.7mm.

Body yellowish brown with blackish brown stripes and maculae. Vertex pale yellow with a reddish brown band between eyes. Antennae yellowish brown with apex reddish brown. Tegmina and hind wings yellowish brown. Legs yellowish brown with blackish brown spots at base of spines. Sterna blackish, with yellowish stripes along lateral margins and maculae in some sterna.

Vertex with interocular space narrower than the distance between antennal sockets ( Fig. 43 ). Third and fourth maxillary palpomeres approximately the same length, and both distinctly longer than the fifth. Pronotum nearly elliptical, hind margin nearly straight and truncate. Tegmina strongly reduced and only reaching middle of abdomen; hind wings rudimentary and only one little flake remaining. Tegmen with radius vein 6–7 branched. Front femur Type B2; tarsi with pulvilli present, tarsal claws symmetrical and specialized. 8th tergite almost concealed, 7–9th tergites caudally with small median concavity. Supra-anal plate 2.5 times as wide as long, with regularly rounded caudal edge and light band. Subgenital plate transversely triangular, almost symmetrical, with rounded and blunt hind margin; styli long, symmetrical and straight, apex spine-like and slightly curved.

Remarks. No permission has been given by ZIN for the dissection to take place. So we can’t provide more information related to this species.

Material examined. 1 ♂ (holotype), China, Yunnan Prov., Dongnanhekou, 200m, 28 June 1956, B. Popov ( ZIN).

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 13. 1 – 2. Margattea bisignata, male: 1 dorsal view 2 ventral view 3 – 4 Margattea angusta sp. n., male: 3 holotype, dorsal view 4 same, ventral view 5 – 6 Margattea flexa sp. n., male: 5 holotype, dorsal view 6 same, ventral view 7 – 8 Margattea spinosa sp. n., male: 7 holotype, dorsal view 8 same, ventral view 9 – 10 Margattea pseudolimbata sp. n., male: 9 holotype, dorsal view 10 same, ventral view 11 Margattea limbata Bey-Bienko, female: 11 holotype, dorsal view 12 – 13 Margattea hemiptera Bey-Bienko, male: 12 holotype, dorsal view. 13 same, ventral view Scale bars = 0.5 cm (Figs. 1 – 13).

FIGURES 43 – 53. Margattea spinosa sp. n. 43 head 44 maxillary palps 3 – 5 45 pronotum 46 tegmen 47 hind wing 48 front femur 49 eighth abdominal tergum 50 supra-anal plate and paraprocts, ventral view 51 subgenital plate (only including median phallomere), dorsal view 52 left phallomere 53 hook-like phallomere. Scale bars = 0.5 mm (Figs. 43 – 53).