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Published: 2013-04-02
Page range: 520–532
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Macrostylopyga gen. nov., a new genus of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattidae), with descriptions of two new species

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia Joint Russian-Vietnamese Research and Technological Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow, 119071 Russia Joint Russian-Vietnamese Research and Technological Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Joint Russian-Vietnamese Research and Technological Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Blattodea morphology new taxa paedomorphosis Laos South-East Asia Vietnam

Abstract

The genus Macrostylopyga gen. nov. and two species (M. grandis sp. nov. and M. bidupi sp. nov.) are described. A de-tailed morphological description with special attention to the male genitalic structures is provided. Some aspects of the evolution of wingless cockroaches are briefly discussed.