THE MALE GENITALIA OF BLATTARIA. 
VI. BLABERIDAE: OXYHALOINAE* 
By Louis M. Roth 
Pioneering Research Laboratory 
U. S. Army Natick Laboratories 
Natick, Massachusetts 01760 
Princis (1965) included the following genera in the Oxyhaloidae: 
Oxyhaloa Brunner, Griffiniella Karny, Nauphoeta Burmeister, 
Henschoutedenia Princis, Jagrehnia Princis, Coleoblatta Hanitsch, 
Pronauphoeta Shelford, Leucophaea Brunner, Pelloblatta Rehn, 
Ileminauphoeta Saussure, Gromphadorhina Brunner, Ateloblatta 
Saussure, and Aeluropoda Butler. In this paper I shall illustrate 
the male genitalia of 8 of the above genera. I have not seen males 
of Coleoblatta , Ileminauphoeta , and Ateloblatta. Princis (1961) 
included Pronauphoeta and Pelloblatta with a (?) in the Oxyhaloi- 
dae but did not question their placement in this family in his Cata- 
logus (Princis, 1965). The male genitalia and subgenital plate of 
Pronauphoeta are so different from other members of the Oxyha- 
loinae [I follow McKittrick (1964) in using subfamily rather than 
family rank], that I do not include it in this subfamily. I have 
placed Pelloblatta in the Panchlorinae (Roth, 1971). 
The genus Ploceophilus Rehn was placed by Rehn (1965) in the 
Oxyhaloinae; it includes one species, P. kohlsi Rehn which lives in 
the communal nests of the Social Weaver Bird in southwest Africa. 
Acording to Rehn (1965) the species is related to Oxyhaloa J and 
he stated that Ploceophilus could be separated from Griffiniella by 
its [ Ploceophilus ] lappet-like tegmina and absence of wings in both 
sexes. However, Princis (personal communcation) believes that 
Rehn was wrong in his interpretation of Griffiniella and that 
Ploceophilus kohlsi is actually Griffiniella heterogamia Karny. 
Materials and Methods 
The male genitalia of museum specimens were treated with 10% 
KOH, dehydrated, cleared in xylol and mounted in Permount. 
The source of each of the specimens whose genitalia are illustrated 
is given using the following abbreviations: (AMNH) = American 
Museum of Natural History, New York; (ANSP) = Academy 
of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; (BMNH) = British Museum 
* Manuscript received by the editor June 4, 1970. 
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