Cockroaches (Blattaria) of Ecuador-checklist and history of research Author VIDLIČKA, ĽUBOMÍR text Zootaxa 2013 2013-01-09 3599 5 401 445 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3599.5.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.5.1 1175-5326 8662421E-F753-46B2-ACDE-0A5868DE6716 Blaberus discoidalis (Serville, 1839) Synonymy: Blabera discoidalis Serville, 1839 Blabera varians Serville, 1839 Blabera cubensis Saussure, 1864 Blabera subspurgata Walker, 1868 Blabera rufescens Saussure & Zehntner, 1894 Distribution: Cuba , Haiti , Jamaica , Costa Rica , Dominican Republic , Puerto Rico , Vieques Island, Panama , Colombia , Venezuela , Trinidad , Nicaragua , Ecuador . Comments to faunistic records in Ecuador : Scudder (1869:342) ( Blabera cubensis ): 2 specimens , Guayaquil. Giglio-Tos (1898:15) ( Blabera rufescens ): 1 specimen , La Concepción, Valle del Mira . Campos (1923:11 and 1926:55 ) ( Blabera rufescens ): the same locality as mentioned by Giglio-Tos (1898) ; ( Blabera discoidalis ): Guayaquil, Durán, Naranjito , Barraganetal, Posorja, El Morro, Daule, Bucay, Vinces (leg. F. Campos R.) and the same locality as mentioned by Hebard (1924) . Hebard (1924:130) : 2 males , 1 female , Guayaquil , Guayas (leg. F. Campos R .), 1 male , Machala, El Oro (leg. Capt. Moirel ) and 1 female , Riobamba , Chimborazo (leg. R . Bourgeois) . Roth & Willis (1960:75) : Ecuador . Princis (1963:127) : Ecuador ?. Roth (1969:240 , 248): 1 specimen , Ecuador . Maes (1992a:23) : Ecuador . Note: Princis (1963:128) marked data of Giglio-Tos and Campos with “?” but Scudder’s and Hebard’s data (with same localities) were not questioned.