Revision of the genus Dziriblatta Chopard, 1936 (Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Ectobiinae) III. The species of the subgenus Dziriblatta
Author
Bohn, Horst
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Zootaxa
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1.
Dziriblatta
(
Dziriblatta
)
bolivari
Chopard, 1936
Figs. 1A, F
,
2A–C, F, G
,
3A–C
,
27
,
28
,
29
For distribution references and characters not treated here see
Bohn 2019: 27
, figs. 16A‒I, 29.
Description.
Size.
Length of pouch lobes more or less same length as T7 (87‒126%, mean 102%,
Table 2
); longer than in Moroccan specimens than in those from
Spain
(111% versus 93%).
Male structures
(
Figs. 1A
,
3A–C
): Pouch (
p
) of the T7 gland with two long lobes united at the base forming a short but wide common end piece (
ep
) opening into the posteriorly adjacent glandular pit. In cross-section the end piece more or less transversely oval, but the lobes soon after their separation with walls widening to an almost circular circumference, conical with narrowly rounded tip, fully sclerotized. Dorsal wall of the pouch ending posteriorly on the sharp edge of its opening (
po
) describing an arc in dorso-anterior direction; ventrally no visible limitation, the ventral wall of the pouch passing subtly over into the bottom of the pit.
Pit
anteriorly limited by the pouch opening, posteriorly by the almost upright posterior wall of the pit (
pw
); its transversal course medially interrupted by a process arising from the posterior wall towards anteriorly and forming a kind of septum (sagittal ridge,
r
) dividing the posterior part of the pit hole. The bottom of the pit anteriorly unsclerotized, membraneous (
m
), sclerotized posterior part on both sides of the sagittal septum deepened to a transversely oval trail (
tl
) which laterally, beyond the opening of the pouch, continues into a broad gutter (
gu
) ascending to the tergite surface and ending there in a shallow circular deepening, the lateral hole (
h
). The ventral wall of the pouch lobes covered by many long bristles, those near the opening forming a dense bundle reaching into the pit as far as the anterior end of the sagittal ridge (long pit bristles,
lbr
). The bristle epithelium continuing outside the pouch in two converging toward mesally narrowing ribbons (
Fig. 3A
); bristles shorter (short pit bristles,
sbr
) and steadily decreasing in length mesad; thus, all bristles outside the lobes with ends in about the same region near the sagittal ridge.
Glandular pores
laterally on T2, numerous, covering an area of about half of the length of the pre-ridge area (
Fig. 2G
).
Distribution.
Northern
Morocco
between Cabo Espartel and
Melilla
peninsula; in
Spain
,
Andalusia
, Cordillera Penibetica, only at one locality in the Sa. del Chaparral, at an elevation of
1000 m
(
Figs. 27
,
28
).