Eublaberus
{{Short description|Genus of cockroaches}}
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| image_caption = Eublaberus distanti, the genus type species{{ cite web | title=Genus Eublaberus Hebard, 1920 | last=Beccaloni | first=GW | year=2007 | work=Cocroach Species File | url=https://cockroach.speciesfile.org/otus/858506/overview| accessdate=31 October 2023 }}
| taxon = Eublaberus
| authority = Hebard, 1920
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Eublaberus is a genus of South American cockroaches in the subfamily Blaberinae, identified by Morgan Hebard in 1920.
Description
Among the differences from the related genus Blaberus are proportionately somewhat shorter, stouter limbs, a broad blackish bar on the caudal margin (rear) of the pronotum, and angulation on the lateral margins (sides) of the pronotum.{{cite book|last=Hebard|first=Morgan|authorlink=Morgan Hebard|title=The Blattidae of Panama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I2gqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA116|year=1919|publisher=American Entomological Society|location=Philadelphia|pages=116–117}}
Species
The Cocroach Species File lists:
- Eublaberus argentinus Hebard 1921
- Eublaberus distanti (Kirby, W. F. 1903): The six spotted cockroach or Trinidad bat cave cockroach
- Eublaberus fernandoi Lopes & de Oliveira 2000
- Eublaberus immaculus (Saussure & Zehntner 1894)
- Eublaberus marajoara Rocha e Silva 1972
- Eublaberus posticus (Erichson, 1848): The orange-headed cockroach
- Eublaberus serranus Lopes, Oliveira & Khouri, 2015
- Eublaberus sulzeri (Guérin-Méneville 1857)
- Eublaberus variegata Rocha e Silva 1972
E. distanti and E. posticus are primarily cave-dwelling cockroaches of Central and South America.
References
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External links
- [http://www.roachforum.com/index.php?showtopic=2956 Eublaberus species comparison] with photographs, from a public internet forum
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