Ellipsidion

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Blattodea

Familia: Ectobiidae
Subfamilia: Pseudophyllodromiinae
Genus: Ellipsidion
Species (18): E. amplum – E. australe – E. bicolor – E. castaneum – E. femoratum – E. gemmiculum – E. humerale – E. laetum – E. magnificum – E. marginiferum – E. notabile – E. quadripunctatum – E. ramosum – E. reticulatum – E. simulans – E. terminale – E. variegatum – E. yapenensis
Source(s) of checklist:
Checklist based uncritically on Blattodea Species File
Name

Ellipsidion de Saussure, 1863

Gender: [Neuter]
Type species: Thyrsocera australis de Saussure, 1863
Fixation: Monotypy
ZooBank: [No record]

Synonymy

Apolyta Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865

References

Hebard, M. 1943: Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, (4) Google books Reference page. [see p. 95]
Roth, L.M. 1999: The genus Ellipsidion Saussure from New Guinea (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae: Pseudophyllodromiinae). Serangga 4(2): 245-283. [Not seen] Reference page.