taxonID	type	description	language	source
03FD878AA26EFFDA5B58FBD28DA82A34.taxon	description	(figures 2 – 4) Type material. HOLOTYPE: ³, north-west Thailand: cave Tham Pha Mon (Mae Hong Son Province, Nam Lang region, 19 ° 28 ∞ N, 98 ° 14 ∞ E), 20 March 1997, N. Myuge (H. Miore) leg., coll. Slovak National Museum – Natural History Museum Bratislava (SNM-NHMB). PARATYPES: 1 ³, 3 ♀, same data as holotype (Vidlička collection). Etymology. The species is named in honour of N. Myuge, who collected this species. Description Size (mm). Body length: ³ 10.0 – 10.75, ♀ 9.9 – 11.8; pronotum length × width, ³ 2.5 × 3.9, ♀ 2.4 – 2.75 × 3.5 – 4.1; forewing length, ³ 4.5 – 5.0, ♀ 1.75 – 2.0. Male (figures 2 A, C, D, E, F, 3 A – H, 4 A – H). Head longitudinal, oval, partly visible from above; faceted eyes small, strongly reduced, facetes indistinct; ocelli absent; fifth maxillary palpomere shorter than the fourth, apex rounded. Antennae long, slender, about 55 segments, scapus long, pedicel short, third segment as long as scapus, other segments shorter. Pronotum parabolic, lateral hind corner slightly oblong. Tegmina reaching to the base of fourth tergite, obliquely truncate, surface covered by rather sparse trichia. Trichia are present mostly apically on the reduced intercalary veins. Sc is highly expanded and supported by series of branches, clavus is strongly reduced, radial field covers almost the half of the wing’s width, media is four branched. Hind wings reduced, lobate (figure 3 F), slightly shorter than metanotum. Anteroventral margin of front femur with three large proximal spines succeeded by a row of piliform spinules terminating in a large distal spine (type B) (figures 2 F, 1 4 C); anterior margin of front tibia with several small spines, followed by three large spines near the centre and terminating in two large spines, posterior margin with many piliform spinules, two large spines at the distal end; tarsal claws simple, symmetrical, pulvilli and arolia absent (figure 4 D). Ten terga (T 1 – T 10) are visible on the abdomen (figures 2 A, 3 A, 4 B). Abdominal terga (T 2 – T 8) are strongly specialized: the posterior margin of T 2 is medially strongly concave, T 3 contains medially large round glandular pit with longitudinal elevated part in the middle, T 4 has a large deep fossa, a pair of large tubercles at each posterior border of T 5 – T 8 (unique in Blattaria; figure 4 A, B, E – H). Hind margin of supraanal plate rounded with a shallow medial depression. Cerci 9 – 10 segmented, surface dorsally smooth, ventrally with long setae, long sensilla on the apex (figure 3 G, H). Subgenital plate is symmetrical with two similar setose styles, interstylar margin convexly rounded (figure 2 E). Genitalia are shown in figure 2 D: genital hook projects on the left side, the apex strongly narrow, curved; right phallomere strongly sclerotized, curved to S shape. Colour: the specimens are pale brownish yellow, nearly translucent. Only maxillae and tubercles on abdomen are darker. Female (figure 2 B). Head exposed, faceted eyes reduced, but present. Pronotum parabolic, lateral hind corner slightly oblong. Tegmina strongly reduced to lateral pads slightly overlapping mesomotum, veins indistinct. Metanotum laterally distinct elongated. Hind margin of supraanal plate convexly rounded with long setae. Subgenital plate with distinct valves. Pattern of front femur same as in the male. Colour: the specimens are pale brownish yellow, nearly translucent. Remarks This species differs from S. thamfaranga described by Roth principally by the presence of large tubercles on the hind margins of abdominal terga 5 – 8. Roth claimed that the tergal glands were present on the second and third segments, but our observations suggest that he may have missed the narrow first segment. His drawing (figure 2 H in Roth and McGavin, 1994: 1322) is very similar to our figure 2 A, except for the apparent absence of segment 1.	en	Vidlička, Ľubomír, Vršanský, Peter, Shcherbakov, Dmitrij E. (2003): Two new troglobitic cockroach species of the genus Spelaeoblatta (Blattaria: Nocticolidae) from North Thailand. Journal of Natural History 37 (1): 107-114, DOI: 10.1080/713834390, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/713834390
03FD878AA269FFD95B45FCCB8A1B2F1C.taxon	description	(figure 5 A – C) Type material. HOLOTYPE: ³, north-west Thailand: Red Cliff Cave (Mae Hong Son Province, Nam Lang region, 19 ° 36 ∞ N, 98 ° 04 ∞ E), 24 March 1997, N. Myuge (H. Miore) leg., coll. SNM-NHMB. Etymology. The specific name refers to the country of origin. Description Size (mm). Body length: ³ 8.75; pronotum length × width, ³ 2.4 × 3.4; forewing length, ³ 5.0. Male (figure 5 A – C). Head longitudinal, oval, partly visible from above; compound eyes strongly reduced but present; ocelli absent; apex of fifth maxillary palpomere rounded. Antennae long, slender, about 60 segments, scapus and third segment long, other segments markedly shorter. Pronotum unicoloured, parabolic, the middle of hind margin straight, lateral corners obliquely truncated. Tegmina reaching to the end of fifth tergite, obliquely truncate, surface covered by rather sparse trichia, especially on apical part of venation. Hind wings reduced, only lobate, reaching to a half of the metanotum length. Ten abdominal terga visible. The posterior margin of T 2 medially concave. T 3 has a medial, inverted Y-like glandular fossa, with hind margin medially elongated and elevated. T 4 with a small medial indentation, and T 4 – T 7 with collar-like elevations on the hind margins. Hind margin of supraanal plate is oval with medial shallow depression. Cerci are composed of 10 segments, surface dorsally smooth, ventrally with long setae, apically with long sensilla. Subgenital plate symmetrical with two similar setose styles, interstylar margin plane contains small medial elevation (figure 5 C). The genital hook on the left side, the apex strongly curved. Colour: the specimen is pale brownish yellow, nearly translucent. Male nymph. Size (mm): body length: 6.9; pronotum length × width, 1.9 × 2.5; front femur length, 1.9. Head with compound eyes having approximately 100 separated ommatidia that become smaller towards the antennae. Wing pads on meso- and metanotum markedly long. Anteroventral margin of front femur with three large proximal spines followed by a row of piliform spinules (type B); tarsal claws 1 simple, symmetrical, pulvilli and arolia absent. T 3 medially elongated as in the adult male. Subgenital plate with two small styles. Remarks The species S. thailandica and S. gestroi were only described from a single male and a single female, respectively. So far, their opposite sexes are not known. Until the male of S. gestroi is found, we cannot exclude a possibility that S. thailandica is a male of S. gestroi. However, S. gestroi was captured about 170 km SW from the locality inhabited by S. thailandica. Known cave-dwelling cockroaches have only very limited areas of distribution (Vandel, 1965; Izquierdo and Oromi, 1994), thus we believe that both described sexes are very probably different species.	en	Vidlička, Ľubomír, Vršanský, Peter, Shcherbakov, Dmitrij E. (2003): Two new troglobitic cockroach species of the genus Spelaeoblatta (Blattaria: Nocticolidae) from North Thailand. Journal of Natural History 37 (1): 107-114, DOI: 10.1080/713834390, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/713834390
