Audreia carinulata (Saussure 1895)

Audreia carinulata (Saussure)
First steps only have as yet been taken to separate properly the generic units related to Epilampra, in which partial to complete reduction in the organs of flight has occurred. At the present time, as was the case with Shelford in 1910, insufficient material is at hand to allow a proper revision to be made. A number of species are before us which must be assigned to this genus as characterized by Shelford, but which indicate the presence of at least four distinctive groups, though females alone of the majority of species are represented. Larger series and male examples will be needed before it can be determined whether these groups represent distinct genera, or are simply striking divisions in the genus Audreia, comparable to the many striking divisions in the genus Epilampra as at present defined.
Added difficulty is found in the fact that a similar situation is encountered in the allied genus Calolampra Saussure, the genotype of which is the Australian C. irrorata (Fabricius).^!*^
Whether the tegmina and wings are reduced, truncate, lateral and lobiform, or absent, are features which in the Blattidae are known to be often utterly worthless from a generic standpoint.
1" Interocular width: M. blaberoides, (^ , 1.7, 9 , 2.4; M. longipennis, 9,14 niilliniL'ters. "* The genoty[>c of Calolampra, Epilampra gracilis Brunner, a synonym of irrorata • according to Shelford, was selected by Rehn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxix, p. 274, (1903).