Blaptica dubia (Serville, 1838)

González, María Marta, Valverde, Alejandra del Carmen, Iglesias, Mónica Sandra & Crespo, Francisco Antonio, 2019, Morphometrics confirms the conspecific between Blaptica dubia (Serville) and B. interior Hebard (Blattodea: Blaberidae), Zoological Systematics 44 (2), pp. 111-122 : 121

Blaptica dubia (Serville, 1838)

= B. claraziana (Saussure, 1864)

= B. ligata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

= B. interior Hebard, 1921 syn. nov.

Funding This work was funded by the Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemo- Epidemias, Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud “ Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán ” .

Acknowledgements We are very grateful to Cristina Scioscia, Hernán Iuri and Marina García for their constructive critical reading and further improvements of the manuscript. We are grateful to Emilia C. Perez, Alberto B. Rojas and Liliana Valverde for their attention during the visit to the IFML. We are also grateful to Arturo Roig Alsina (MACN), Analía Lanteri (MLP) and Jorge Salas (MLP) for enabling us to study specimens from the museum collections.