Pycnoscelus striatus ( Kirby, 1903 )

Wang, Yi-Shu, Dong, Xiao-Jiao, Wang, Zong-Qing & Che, Yan-Li, 2025, Taxonomic update of Pycnoscelus Scudder, 1862 (Blattodea, Blaberidae, Pycnoscelinae), with descriptions of two new species from China, ZooKeys 1231, pp. 45-67 : 45-67

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1231.141287

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15001854

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scientific name

Pycnoscelus striatus ( Kirby, 1903 )
status

 

Pycnoscelus striatus ( Kirby, 1903) View in CoL

Fig. 8 View Figure 8

Leucophaea striata Kirby, 1903: 378; Kirby 1904: 151; Hanitsch 1915: 122; Chopard 1919: 358. View in CoL

Pycnoscelis [sic] striata: Princis 1964: 274.

Pycnoscelus striatus View in CoL : Roth, 1998: 117; Lucañas and Lit 2016: 7; Anisyutkin 2018: 83.

Material examined.

Malaysia • 5 males & 1 female; Borneo, Sandakan, Gomantong cave ; 19 Apr. 2024; Wei-Wei Zhang leg. 1 male; Borneo, Mt. Trus Madi, Jungle Girl Camp ; 19–25 July 2016; Ren-Zhi Zhang leg. 1 male; Borneo, Mt. Trus Madi, Jungle Girl Camp ; 4 May 2023; Cai-Xia Yuan leg.

Diagnosis.

This species is close to P. semivitreus in the structure of male genitalia, but the shape of the right style could distinguish them easily: extending over the middle of subgenital plate in P. striatus (vs more elongate and extending to the left posterolateral angle of subgenital plate in P. semivitreus ).

Measurements (mm).

Macropterous, male, body length including tegmen: 23.6; pronotum length × width: 5.7 × 7.0; tegmen length: 20.8. Brachypterous, body length (from vertex to tip of abdomen): male 14.0–15.0, female 15.0; pronotum length × width: male 3.7–4.1 × 5.4, female 4.2 × 5.6; tegmen length: male 7.4–7.5, female 7.1.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Blattodea

Family

Blaberidae

SubFamily

Pycnoscelinae

Genus

Pycnoscelus

Loc

Pycnoscelus striatus ( Kirby, 1903 )

Wang, Yi-Shu, Dong, Xiao-Jiao, Wang, Zong-Qing & Che, Yan-Li 2025
2025
Loc

Pycnoscelus striatus

Anisyutkin LN 2018: 83
Lucañas CC & Lit IL 2016: 7
Roth LM 1998: 117
1998
Loc

Pycnoscelis [sic] striata: Princis 1964: 274 .

Princis K 1964: 274
1964
Loc

Leucophaea striata

Kirby WF 1904: 151
Kirby WF 1903: 378
1903