Drymaplaneta

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Blattidae		Phylum Arthropoda Order Blattodea Rank Genus

Similar Drymaplaneta semivitta, Common shining cockroach, Temnopteryx, Polyzosteria, Drymaplaneta heydeniana

Drymaplaneta is a genus of cockroaches.

Biodiversity and distribution

6 species

Table 1: Number of species of Drymaplaneta in each region in which it is present (A=adventive, E=endemic, I=indigenous)

Systematics

belongs to the tribe Methanini

within the tribe Methanini, the genus can be recognised by the greatly reduced, lobiform tegmina, with hind wings absent, and third and fourth segments of maxillary palps swollen in males

D. lobipennis and D. shelfordi are uniformly dark

D. heydeniana is light yellowish brown, darkening apically, with translucent yellow margins on thorax and abdomen

the remaining three species (D. communis, D. semivitta and D. variegata) are very similar to each other

the hind tibiae of males are conspicuously expanded and flattened in D. semivitta and D. variegata, but not in any of the other species

D. variegata is lighter in colour than D. semivitta, darkening apically. The possibility of synonymy of these two nominal species has been suggested

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Drymaplaneta Wikipedia

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