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genus Melanozosteria Stål, 1874

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (7):
  • Stål. 1874. Bih. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. 2(13):13 >> Melanozosteria    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:946
  • Princis. 1966. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(8):569 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005.
  • Mackerras. 1968. Australian Journal of Zoology 16:237 >> Note: Made subgenus of Platyzosteria. >> Platyzosteria (Melanozosteria)
  • Mackerras. 1968. Australian Journal of Zoology 16:511-575 >> Platyzosteria (Melanozosteria)
  • Princis. 1971. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Subordo Epilamproidea. Fam.: Ectobiidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(14):1149 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005.
  • Roth, L. M. 2003. Oriental Insects 37:34 >> Note: Raised to genus. >> Melanozosteria
  • Djernæs & Murienne. 2022. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 80:223 >> Note: Transferred to Polyzosteriini. >> Melanozosteria
• Type species:  Polyzosteria nitida Brunner von Wattenwyl, by original monotypy
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Cutilia Stål, 1877
• synonym Syntomaptera Tepper, 1893
• species aculeata (Mackerras, 1968)
• species ayrensis (Mackerras, 1968)
• species barrominensis (Mackerras, 1968)
• species bicolor Kirby, 1903
• species brevitarsis (Shaw, 1922)
• species capitolina (Mackerras, 1968)
• species castanea (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
• synonym coxalis (Walker, 1871)
• synonym exaspera (Tepper, 1894)
• species circumducta (Walker, 1868)
• species conjuncta (Shelford, 1909)
• species exigua (Mackerras, 1968)
• species feriarum (Shaw, 1922)
• species flavofusca (Mackerras, 1968)
• species fulva (Princis, 1954)
• species handschini Princis, 1954
• species hermannsburgensis (Mackerras, 1968)
• species illingworthi (Shaw, 1918)
• species insulae (Mackerras, 1968)
• species insularis (Shaw, 1925)
• species jungii (Tepper, 1895)
• synonym polita (Princis, 1954)
• species karnyi (Ebner, 1925)
• species kellyi (Shaw, 1918)
• species komodensis Bey-Bienko, 1965
• species lentiginosa (Mackerras, 1968)
• species lepida (Walker, 1871)
• species melanesiae (Shelford, 1909)
• species minima (Mackerras, 1968)
• species minor (Mackerras, 1968)
• species mjoebergi Princis, 1966
• species montana (Mackerras, 1968)
• species nigrofasciata (Shaw, 1918)
• species nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
• synonym feejeeana (Bruner, 1916)
• synonym polita (Walker, 1868)
• synonym tartarea (Stål, 1877)
• species nitidella (Shaw, 1918)
• species obscura (Tepper, 1893)
• synonym provisionalis (Tepper, 1893)
• synonym scabriuscula (Tepper, 1893)
• species picea (Princis, 1954)
• synonym unicolor (Princis, 1966)
• species popeae (Mackerras, 1968)
• species pulchra (Shaw, 1925)
• species rufipes (Shelford, 1909)
• species soror (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
• synonym philpotti (Shaw, 1922)
• synonym semicincta (Walker, 1868)
• species spryi (Shaw, 1922)
• species subbifasciata (Tepper, 1893)
• synonym fulvolimbata (Hanitsch, 1934)
• species subinclusa Princis, 1966
• synonym inclusa (Walker, 1868)
• species tepperi (Shaw, 1918)
• synonym dookiensis (Roach & Rentz, 1998)
• species triangulata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893)
• synonym secunda (Tepper, 1894)
• species tristylata (Hanitsch, 1933)
• species uncinata (Shaw, 1918)

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