Morphna Shelford, 1910

Anisyutkin, Leonid N., 2018, Little known Epilamprinae (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae) from the collections of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève. Part 3, Revue suisse de Zoologie 125 (1), pp. 1-16 : 2

Genus Morphna Shelford, 1910

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

Remarks: The genus Morphna includes relatively large and wide cockroaches ( Figs 1, 3 ) in comparison with the vast majority of Epilamprinae . The genus is characterized by the structure of its hind tarsi ( Figs 14, 15 ): metatarsus slightly shorter or about as long as other segments combined, with large euplantula along lower margin, tarsal spines few or absent.

Species included: As given in Beccaloni (2014), with the addition of M. indica Anisyutkin in Anisyutkin & Yushkova, 2017 and M. srilankensis Anisyutkin in Anisyutkin & Yushkova, 2017.

Figures

Figs 1-9. Photos of Morphna maculata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) (1-2: female, syntype, 3-4: male), Morphnodes goliath (Shelford, 1906) (5-6: male), Pseudocalolampra inexpectata Roth & Princis, 1971 (7: male), Colapteroblatta compsa Hebard, 1919 (8: male, 9: female). (1, 3, 5) Dorsal view of entire specimen. (2, 4, 6-9) Facial part of head. Abdominal apex removed in Fig. 3. Scale bars 10 mm: a = 1, b = 3, c = 5. Other photos not to scale.

Figs 10-20. Morphna maculata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865), females (10-18: syntype, 19-20: specimen No. 141012/04). (10) Facial part of head. (11) Pronotum, dorsal view. (12-13, 15) Fore (12), mid (13) and hind (15) tarsus, prolateral view. (14) Hind metatarsus, ventral view. (16) Hind pretarsus, distal view. (17) Abdominal apex, dorsal view. (18) Genital plate, outlines of hind margin. (19) Genital plate, ventral view. (20) Genital plate, outline of medial part of hind margin, posterior view. Dotted areas show membranous parts (not shown for metatarsus in Figs 14-15). Abbreviations: a.s., p.a., spi. – see paragraph “abbreviation used in figures”; for details see text. Scale bars 1 mm: a = 10, b = 11, c = 12, d = 13, e = 14-15, f = 16, g = 17, h = 18, i = 19-20.