Drymaplaneta

Drymaplaneta
	Drymaplaneta semivitta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Family:	Blattidae
Genus:	Drymaplaneta
Species
	Drymaplaneta communis; Drymaplaneta heydeniana; Drymaplaneta lobipennis; Drymaplaneta semivitta; Drymaplaneta shelfordi; Drymaplaneta variegata

Drymaplaneta is a genus of cockroaches.

Biodiversity and distribution

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

	Australia	New Zealand
Drymaplaneta	6E^[1]	2A^[2]

belongs to the tribe Methanini^[3]
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^[3]
D. lobipennis and D. shelfordi are uniformly dark^[3]
D. heydeniana is light yellowish brown, darkening apically, with translucent yellow margins on thorax and abdomen^[3]
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^[3]
D. variegata is lighter in colour than D. semivitta, darkening apically.^[3] The possibility of synonymy of these two nominal species has been suggested^[4]

^ "Australian Faunal Directory". Archived from the original on 2011-03-24. Retrieved 2012-08-27.
^ NZOR (Web Service Demonstrator)^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Mackerras, M.J. 1968: Australian Blattidae (Blattodea) IX. Revision of the Polyzosteriinae tribe Methanini, Tryonicinae, and Blattinae. Australian Journal of Zoology, 16(3): 511-575. doi:10.1071/ZO9680511
^ Ramsay, G.W. 1975: Appendix to the Gisborne cockroach. New Zealand entomologist, 6(1): 72. doi:10.1080/00779962.1975.9723106 PDF Archived February 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

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