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her 2 groups, Plectopterinae and Blattellinae, though additional 
characters such as wing venation seem to require evaluation before 
all genera placed in Plectopterinae by McKittrick remain there perm- 
anently. Most genera of Pseudomopinae, in the sense used by Hebard 
for many years, were placed in the family Blattellidae by Princis 
(i 960 ) without subfamily separation. The subfamily name Pseudo- 
mopinae dates from Burr ( 1910 , p. 152 ), who also used the family 
name Pseudomopidae. [An earlier use of Pseudomopinae by Rehn 
( 1903 , P. 260 ) is invalid because the name was proposed as a substi- 
tute for Phyllodrominae, and this substitute is required by Article 39 
of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to be based 
on the valid name of the original type-genus, i.e., Blattella Caudeil.j 
Karny ( 1908 ) introduced Blattellidae, and that name has priority 
for any higher category including both Blattella and Pseudomops. 
[The chronology of these group names was given by Kevan and 
Princis ( 1961 ).] 
The correlation of differences in bionomics with the higher cate- 
gories was also tested in our study. 
We thank Dr. K. Princis for identifying “Loboptera” thaxteri, 
Dr. Frances A. McKittrick for examining the same, Dr. R. K. 
Benjamin for identifying Herpomyces lobopterae , Mr. William Hahn 
for taking the photographs, and Mr. Peter Graves for camera hicida 
outlines of Figs. 22-24. We are also grateful to Dr. Princis for 
reading the manuscript and offering some very helpful suggestions. 
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