Ectobius

Ectobius is a genus of non-cosmopolitan cockroaches native to Old World described by Stephens in 1835, belonging to the family Ectobiidae, subfamily Ectobiinae.

Ectobius species – Nymph

Ectobius
Ectobius pallidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Ectobiidae
Genus: Ectobius
Stephens, 1835
Species

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Species of this genus are mainly present in most of Europe, in eastern Palearctic ecozone and in the Near East.

The adult 'cockroaches' reach 6–12 millimetres (0.24–0.47 in) of length, the basic coloration of their body is mostly brown or yellowish, with a clearer margin.

The females are usually bigger than the males and have shorter wings, while in the males wings cover at least the whole abdomen.

Some members of the genus occurred in North America until an estimated 49 million years ago, but the genus was absent from the continent until recent reintroductions of some cool-adapted species in eastern Canada and the eastern United States.[1]

List of species
  • Ectobius aeoliensis Failla & Messina, 1974
  • Ectobius aethiopicus (Shelford, 1910)
  • Ectobius aetnaeus Ramme, 1927
  • Ectobius africanus Saussure, 1899
  • Ectobius albicinctus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861)
  • Ectobius alleni Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius baccetti Failla & Messina, 1979
  • Ectobius balcani Ramme, 1923
  • Ectobius burri Adelung, 1917
  • Ectobius corsorum Ramme, 1923
  • Ectobius darbandae Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius delicatulus Bei-Bienko, 1950
  • Ectobius duskei Adelung, 1906
  • Ectobius eckerleini Harz, 1977
  • Ectobius erythronotus Burr, 1898
  • Ectobius filicensis Failla & Messina, 1974
  • Ectobius frieseanus Princis, 1963
  • Ectobius haeckeli Bolívar, 1876
  • Ectobius heteropterus Bei-Bienko, 1963
  • Ectobius ichnusae Failla & Messina, 1982
  • Ectobius indicus Bei-Bienko, 1938
  • Ectobius intermedius Failla & Messina, 1981
  • Ectobius involutus Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius jarringi (Hanitsch, 1938)
  • Ectobius kervillei Bolívar, 1907
  • Ectobius kikensis Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius kikuyuensis Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius kirgizius Bei-Bienko, 1936
  • Ectobius kraussianus Ramme, 1923
  • Ectobius lagrecai Failla & Messina, 1981
  • Ectobius lapponicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ectobius larus Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius leptus Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius lineolatus (Rehn, 1922)
  • Ectobius lodosi Harz, 1983
  • Ectobius lucidus (Hagenbach, 1822)
  • Ectobius makalaka Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius minutus Failla & Messina, 1978
  • Ectobius montanus Costa, 1866
  • Ectobius neavei Shelford, 1911
  • Ectobius nuba Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius pallidus (Olivier, 1789)
  • Ectobius palpalis Chopard, 1958
  • Ectobius panzeri Stephens, 1835
  • Ectobius parvosacculatus Failla & Messina, 1974
  • Ectobius pavlovskii Bei-Bienko, 1936
  • Ectobius punctatissimus Ramme, 1922
  • Ectobius pusillus Bei-Bienko, 1967
  • Ectobius pyrenaicus Bohn, 1989
  • Ectobius rammei Rehn, 1926
  • Ectobius sardous Baccetti, 1991
  • Ectobius scabriculus Failla & Messina, 1976
  • Ectobius semenovi Bei-Bienko, 1935
  • Ectobius siculus Ramme, 1949
  • Ectobius sjoestedti (Shelford, 1910)
  • Ectobius stanleyanus Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius subvitreus Bei-Bienko, 1936
  • Ectobius supramontes Bohn, 2004
  • Ectobius sylvestris (Poda, 1761)
  • Ectobius tadzhicus Bei-Bienko, 1935
  • Ectobius tamaninii Galvagni, 1972
  • Ectobius textilis Rehn, 1931
  • Ectobius ticinus Bohn, 2004
  • Ectobius togoensis Ramme, 1923
  • Ectobius tuscus Galvagni, 1978
  • Ectobius tyrrhenicus Failla & Messina, 1973
  • Ectobius usticaensis Failla & Messina, 1974
  • Ectobius vittiventris (Costa, 1847)
  • Ectobius willemsei Failla & Messina, 1980
  • Ectobius lapponicus
  • Ectobius pallidus
  • Ectobius sylvestris
  • Ectobius vittiventris

References
  1. Vršanský, P.; Oružinský, R.; Barna, P.; Vidlička, L'.; Labandeira, C. C. (2014). "Native Ectobius (Blattaria: Ectobiidae) From the Early Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado and Its Reintroduction to North America 49 Million Years Later". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 107 (1): 28–36. doi:10.1603/AN13042. ISSN 0013-8746.
  • Bohn, H. 1989: Revision of the sylvestris group of Ectobius Stephens in Europe (Blattaria: Blattellidae). Entomologica Scandinavica, 20: 317–342
  • Stephens, 1835 : Illustrations of British Entomology. Mandibulata. Baldwin & Cradock, London, vol. VII, p. 1–306.
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