Morphnini McKittrick, 1964

Anisyutkin, Leonid N., 2020, New and little known Epilamprinae (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae) from the collections of the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève and the Zoological Institute of Saint Petersburg. Part 4, Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (1), pp. 105-117 : 106

Tribe Morphnini McKittrick, 1964

Type genus: Morphna Shelford, 1910 .

Remark: The tribe Morphnini is characterized by the peculiar structure of the right phallomere of the male genitalia (Anisyutkin, 2017). The genera Placoblatta Bey-Bienko, 1969 and Molytria Stål, 1874 discussed below share this structure with the genus Morphna and undoubtedly belong to Morphnini on the basis of their right phallomere structure ( Figs 14-15 , 30-31 ).

Figures

Figs 9-20. Placoblatta semialata sp. nov., male holotype. (9) Facial part of head. (10) Abdominal apex, dorsal view. (11) Left cercus, dorsal view. (12) Paraprocts, ventral view. (13) Hypandrium, ventral view. (14-15) Right phallomere, ventral (14) and dorsal (15) view. (16) Sclerite L2D, dorsal view. (17) Apical part of sclerite L2D, dorsal view. (18) Sclerite L3. (19-20) Apex of sclerite L3. Dotted areas show membranous parts. Bristles are not shown in Fig. 16. Abbreviations: b.L3, c.p.R1T, d.o., R2, R3, R4, R5, s.t. - see chapter “abbreviation used in figures”, for details see text. Scale bars 1 mm: a (9), b (10-13), c (14-15, 17), d (16, 18), e (19-20).

Figs 25-35. Molytria vegranda Roth, 1999, male. (25-26) Left hind tarsus, ventral (25) and inner (26) view. (27) Abdominal apex, dorsal view. (28) Hypandrium, ventral view. (29) Sclerites L2D, L4U and outlines of caudal part of hypandrium, dorsal view. (30-31) Right phallomere, ventral (30) and dorsal (31) view. (32) Apical part of sclerite L2D, dorsal view. (33) Sclerite L3. (34, 35) Apex of sclerite L3. Dotted areas show membranous parts.Abbreviations: a.s., b.L2D, b.L3, c.p.R1T, f.s., L4U, R2, R3, R4, R5, s.t., scl.a. - see chapter “abbreviation used in figures”, for details see text. Scale bars 1 mm: a (24-25), b (27-29), c (30-31), d (32), e (33), f (34-35).