Phyllodromica subaptera
Creators: name: KNEBELSBERGER, THOMAS
name: MILLER, MICHAEL A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Ectobiidae
Phyllodromica
Phyllodromica subaptera

description: Key for the morphological determination of the bisexual species of the subaptera -group   
1. Eight visible sternites; last (sternite 9) with very narrow visible part, triangular (Fig. 3 I); tergite 7 always with a glandular pit (Fig. 3 D)............................................................................................................male 2  
- Six visible sternites; last (sternite 7) very broad and large, semicircular (Fig. 2 C); tergite 7 always without pit.................................................................................................................................................... female 5  
 2. Distal end of mid tibia with 4 spines (Fig. 14 C); medio-anterior process of right paraproct with bulge (Fig. 14 B); tergite 8 always without prominent sculpturing (Figs 12 E, 13 B)............................................ ............................................................................................................................ P. quadracantha spec. nov.   
 - Distal end of mid tibia with 5 spines (Fig. 5 E); medio-anterior process of right paraproct without bulge (Fig. 5 D); tergite 8 strongly sculptured, with a conelike process at the anterior margin and a sinusoidal transversal edge behind that (Figs 3 E, 4 D-F, 6 E, 7 F-H, 9 E, 10 B-D, F). ................. P. iberica spec. nov. Determination of P. iberica morphotypes.................................................................................................... 3   
 3. Tergite 8 without a central mound, bristles on the tergite surface in the middle reaching far anteriorly near to the conelike process (white arrows in Fig. 10 B, F), the latter forming a kind of bubble of different sizes. ................................................................................................................................ P. iberica morph #3   
- Tergite 8 with a central mound bearing pores displacing the bristles on the tergite surface in the middle towards posteriorly (white arrow heads in Figs 4 D, 7 F)........................................................................... 4  
 4. Tergite 6 posteriorly of the transversal ridge with a transversal torus bearing bristles (Fig. 7 A–C); tergite 7 with smaller and lower mound, bristle fields very small and immediately adjacent to each other (Figs 6 D, 7 D, E); tergite 8 central mound about as broad as shallow pit (Figs 6 E, 7 F, G). ... P. iberica morph #2   
 - Tergite 6 posteriorly of the transversal ridge without a transversal torus (Fig. 3 C); tergite 7 with a large and high mound, bristle fields large, separated by a broad rounded ridge (Figs 3 D, 4 A–C); tergite 8 central mound broader than shallow pit (Figs 3 E, 4 D, E). ................................................. P. iberica morph #1   
 5. Disk of pronotum at least with a dark crescent along the anterior margin, dark area often still more extended (Figs 1 B, 2 A, 5 F, H); genital sclerites near the intercalary sclerites with an additional sclerotization (Fig. 2 D, E); distal end of mid tibia always with 5 spines. ........................... P. subaptera, P. iberica The females of the two species cannot be distinguished by morphological features or colouration. The females of P. subaptera may be recognized by their parthenogenetic reproduction (Knebelsberger & Bohn 2003).   
 - Disk of pronotum never with larger dark area but regularly spotted throughout (Fig. 13 D); genital sclerites without an additional sclerotization near the intercalary sclerite (Fig. 13 G); distal end of mid tibia mostly with 4 but sometimes also with 5 spines. ................................................................. P. quadracantha
description: Published as part of KNEBELSBERGER, THOMAS & MILLER, MICHAEL A., 2007, Revision and phylogeny of the subaptera-group of Phyllodromica (Blattoptera: Blattellidae: Ectobiinae), including a parthenogenetic species and the evaluation of COI sequences for species identification (DNA barcoding), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 1522 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5087760