Dziriblatta (Sulcoblatta) obscura, Bohn, 2019

Bohn, Horst, 2019, Revision of the genus Dziriblatta Chopard, 1936 (Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Ectobiinae) from North Africa, Spain, and the Macaronesian islands. I. The nine subgenera of the genus, Zootaxa 4610 (1), pp. 1-73 : 29

Dziriblatta (Sulcoblatta) obscura , spec. nov.

Figs. 17 A–Q, 18A–D, I, 22C, 29.

Etymology. The name of the species refers to the dark (Latin: obscurus) colouration of the body.

Material studied.

Type material. Morocco. Holotype, 1♂, W slope of Haut Atlas , 3 km SW Oulma (ca. 20 km NNE Agadir), 300 m, 17./ 23.II.1998, leg. B. & H.Bohn (completely on two slides: Ma 189/1). ( ZSM).

Additional material. Morocco. 10♂, 4♀, ex L : 4♂, 3♀, same data as holotype (slides: ♂, Ma 189/2, 6, 9, 10, 13; ♀, 189/3, 7, 11, 12). (C. Bohn, ZSM) .

Diagnosis. Differences to other species of the subgenus not yet substantiated.

Description. Size. Length of pronotum in male 2.11–2.21 (2.17 mean) mm, in female 2.46–2.59 (mean 2.53) mm.

Male structures. See under characters of the subgenus.

Colouration. Predominantly dark brown, almost black, lighter coloured areas: head and coxae lighter brown, a narrow yellowish interocular stripe, lateral thoracal margins and tegmina transparent, often with dispersed dark dots, distal parts of legs yellowish; lateral borders of tergites whitish ( Figs. 17 A–H, M). Lightly coloured areas on tergites and sternites of females usually much more extended than in the male ( Figs. 17I, N, O ).

Distribution. So far only found at one locality (Ma 189) in the SW of Morocco, N of Agadir.

Figures

Fig. 17A–Q. Outline of the structures of Sulcoblatta obscura. Male: A–H, J–M. A: T1–4; B: T5; C: T6, arrow points to the edge above the “rain gutter”; D: T7 with large glandular pit (gl) and two pairs of pouches (p); E: T8; F: T9; G: T10, ap medioanterior arm of the left paraproct; H: left tegmen; J: hook, t trough, ve velum; K: right cercus; L: S9, one pleated scale sclerite (ss) present, cs cleft sclerite, R'3 sclerite; M: thoracal nota. Female: I, N–Q. N: thoracal nota; O: T5; P: dorsal genital complex, bd dorsal basivalvular sclerite, sp spermathecal plate; Q: ventral genital complex, ls laterosternal shelf, if intersternal folds. – Enlargements: Same scale for A–I, for J,L, for N,O, and for P,Q. – Identifications: A–G,J–M (Ma 189/1), H (Ma 189/ 10), I (Ma 189/ 11), N–Q (Ma 189/3).