Luridiblatta fenestrata Bohn 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bohn, Horst
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Ectobiidae
Luridiblatta
Luridiblatta fenestrata

description: 3. Luridiblatta fenestrata, sp. nov.
Figs. 5F, 13A–N, 14A–C, 15A–I, 35C, 36I–K, 37, 43
Diagnosis. As in L. vesiculosa with very short T7 glandular pouches, otherwise well characterised by the unique structure of the windows of the anterior pit wall showing a lateral constriction brought about by a sharp transversal crest of the window frame protruding towards mesally (tc in Fig. 13F).
Etymology. The species name refers to the above mentioned structure resembling some windows (in Latin: fenestra, - ae) of ancient churches.
Material studied. Type material. Holotype, 1♂, MOROCCO, Forêt de la Mamora, 5 km NE Sidi-Allal-Bahraoui (30 km E Rabat), 150 m, 20.VIII.1984, leg. B. & H.Bohn (completely on two slides, Ma 16/19). (Coll. Bohn, ZSMC).
Additional material. MOROCCO. 29♂, 43♀, 36L, 6O, same data as holotype (slides: ♂, Ma 16/1,5-16,20–28; ♀, Ma 16/4,18,29–34; L, Ma 16/17,35,36). (Coll. Bohn, ZSMC).
Description. Size. Male. Length of pronotum 1.47–1.60 (mean 1.53) mm, length of tegmina 2.1–2.45 (mean 2.34) mm. (N = 16/16). Female. Length of pronotum 1.85 mm, length of tegmina 2.04–2.28 (mean 2.19) mm. (N = 2/8).
Wings. Apex of tegmina in both sexes usually straight (Fig. 13H,I), more seldom very weakly concave or convex; hindwings of variable shape, not broadening towards the apex (Fig. 16J,K).
Male abdomen. Tergites: Fig. 16A–G. T 6 as described under characters of the genus and the species group (Fig. 5F). T7. Pit size: minor, largest with size 1–2 (Figs. 14C, 15B). Anterior pit wall (aw) with relatively large windows (w), which are bilobed by a sharp transversal crest (tc) protruding from the surrounding window frame (wf) towards mesally; stabilising bracelet (s) strongly broadening towards the bottom of the pit; posterior pit wall (pw) with a pair of well developed hemispherical bulges (bu), sometimes having a strongly sclerotised (internal?) surface (Figs. 13F, 14A,B, 15C). In these figures, as well as in Fig. 15A, the posterior wall of the pit has largely remained in an vertical position, the bulges thus appearing as “hanging drops”. Glandular pouches (gp) very short, scarcely surpassing the anterior border of the tergite (Fig. 14A–C); tubules moderately long, virtually stretched fairly reaching the respective lateral border of the tergite (tu in Fig. 14B,C); both gland types seem to have their openings into the pit near the window embayment, the arrows in Fig. 15C,D point to the endpieces of both systems visible through the windows. Genital hook with relatively normally shaped shaft, below the apical process not or only weakly bulged out (Fig. 13L–N).
Colouration pattern in both sexes as typical for the first two species-groups, but dark markings often lighter coloured.
Distribution. So far only known from the type locality in the Forêt de la Mamora, near Rabat, Morocco.
description: Published as part of Bohn, Horst, 2022, Revision of the genus Luridiblatta (Blaberoidea, Ectobiidae, Ectobiinae), pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 5215 (1) on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5215.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7403385