Comprehensive Description
provided by Memoirs of the American Entomological Society
Phortioeca phoraspoides (Walker) (Plate VI, figure i.)
1871. Zetohora phoraspoides Walker, Cat. Derm. Saltat. Brit. Mus., v, Suppl.
Blatt., p. 8. [cf ; Chontales, Nicaragua.] 1893. Zetohora suhlobata Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent. -Am., Orth., i. p. 102.
[ c? ; Pantaleon, Guatemala.]
Cabima, Panama, V, 22, 1911, (Busck), i d", 2 9 , 14 juv. in 3 instars.
This roach, though handsome in the adult winged condition, with pronotum black, ochraceous-buff meso-cephalad and ferruginous latero-cephalad, is even more striking in the immature stages (see plate VI, fig. i). Then individuals are ochraceousbuff to ochraceous-tawny, showing a beautiful, intricate and symmetrical heavy pattern of black. In the immature stages only, this species is strongly patelliform.^'^"
This species has also been recorded from San Carlos, Costa Rica.
- bibliographic citation
- Hebard, M. 1919. The Blattidae of Panama. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 4. Philadelphia, USA
