| Holocompsa | |
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| Holocompsa azteca | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Corydiidae |
| Genus: | Holocompsa Burmeister, 1838 |
Holocompsa is a genus of hairy sand cockroaches in the family Corydiidae. It is the only genus in the subfamily Holocompsinae.1
Distribution
Eight of 11 species of the genus Holocompsa are found in the Americas; two species are found in Asia, H. debilis and H. zhangi; and one species is found in Africa, H. pusilla.2
Species
The following species have been described:32
- Holocompsa azteca (Saussure, 1862)
- Holocompsa binotata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894)
- Holocompsa cyanea (Burmeister, 1838)
- Holocompsa debilis (Walker, 1868)
- Holocompsa nitidula (Fabricius, 1781)
- Holocompsa panamae (Hebard, 1920)
- Holocompsa pusilla (Bolívar, 1924)
- †Holocompsa scleroptera (Vršanský et al., 2025)
- Holocompsa scotaea (Hebard, 1922)
- Holocompsa tolteca (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894)
- Holocompsa zapoteca (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894)
- Holocompsa zhangi (Qiu, Wang, & Che, 2020)
References
References
- Gutiérrez, E. (1995). "Annotated Checklist of Cuban Cockroaches". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 121 (1/2): 65–85. JSTOR 25078586.
- Qiu, L.; Wang, Z. -Q.; Che, Y. -L. (2020). "Discovery of the second Asian Holocompsa species from China, and supplemental description of the male of H. debilis (Blattodea: Corydiidae: Euthyrrhaphinae)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. Nouvelle Série. 56 (6): 481–487. doi:10.1080/00379271.2020.1852889.
- "genus Holocompsa Burmeister, 1838: Cockroach Species File". Cockroach Species File.