Proceedings of 
the United States 
National Museum 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION + WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Volume 113 1962 Number 3461 
SYNOPSIS OF THE NEOTROPICAL COCKROACH 
GENUS MACROPHYLLODROMIA 
(ORTHOPTERA: BLATTOIDEA, EPILAMPRIDAE) 
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Macrophyllodromia Saussure and Zehnter (1893) is a genus of Neo- 
tropical cockroaches which resemble Blattella germanica (Linnaeus) 
in that the pronotum bears two conspicuous dark longitudinal bars, 
but the species are decidedly larger and more robust than Blattella, 
which is of Old World origin and differs especially in having longi- 
tudinal rather than oblique branches of cubitus in the tegmen. The 
genus Macrophyllodromia belongs to the group Blattellites and shows 
close relationship to Latiblattella Hebard (1917), Antitheton Hebard 
(1919), and EHurylestes Hebard (1940). Including two new species 
here described, five species are known, all confined to tropical America, 
from the Guianas and Bolivia to Mexico. We have examined speci- 
mens of all the species, and here redescribe M. maximiliani (Saussure) 
and record a Bolivian specimen of nigrigena Hebard, the latter pre- 
viously known only from French Guiana. Specimens of Macro- 
phyllodromia are scarce in collections, and most of these here reported 
were intercepted with bananas by plant quarantine inspectors. 
1 This work was done while the author, a member of the staff of the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 
was studying in the United States under a grant from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 
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