On the Taxonomic Position of the Genus Stictomorphna Bruijning, 1948 (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae)

Abstract

A detailed morphological description of the type species of the genus Stictomorphna, S. mjobergi (Hanitsch, 1925), is given. Based on the new data, the genus Stictomorphna is re-diagnosed. Stictomorphna fruhstorferi (Shelford, 1910) and S. tramlapensis (Anisyutkin, 1999), comb. n. are transferred from the genus Pseudophoraspis Kirby, 1903. The relationships of the genus Stictomorphna are hypothesized. A group of genera, including Stictomorphna and some other genera of Epilamprinae probably corresponding to the tribe Morphnini McKittrick, 1964, is diagnosed.