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''Planuncus tingitanus s.l.'' is a working title for any of the species belonging to the ''Planuncus tingitanus'' species group, of the cockroach genus ''Planuncus'' (Blattodea: Ectobiinae). As the exact status of some the species in this group can not be determined without more research, the whole species complex is referred to by the name of the oldest species in the group sensu lato (hence the "s.l."). As such, ''Planuncus tingitanus s.l.'' refers to an adventive species, or possibly a complex of cryptic species, that has dramatically expanded its range over the southern parts of Northwestern Europe in a very short period of time during the first decades of the 21st century. == Species complex? == The animals swarming over Europe are closely related, or possibly even synonymous to ''Ectobius perspicillaris tingitanus'' Bolivar, 1914 (later treated as a species in its own right: ''Ectobius tingitanus''), originally described from the most northern part of Morocco. Furthermore they cannot be easily distinguished on any constant morphological traits from ''Ectobius finoti'' Chopard 1943, described from Algeria (it had been suggested before that ''finoti'' and ''tingitanus'' might need to be synonymized). Finally, a third name was added to the mix, when ''Ectobius vinzi'' Maurel 2012 was described from France as a new species, after the invaders had become prominently omnipresent in that country. Until more genetic and morphological research is done it cannot be determined with any certainty if all or some of these species should be synonymized or if maybe even more cryptic species need to be identified. Therefore, Bohn et al. (2013) prefer to identify the animals adventively spreading over Northwestern Europe, as well as the North African specimen (other than the types) as "belonging to the ''tingitanus''-complex". As such, the various species names refer to the respective type specimen exclusively. Meanwhile they erected a new genus ''Planuncus'' to group these species with some other closely related (but clearly distinct) species previously in ''Ectobius'' and ''Phyllodromica''. Also, a subgenus ''(Planuncus)'' was created to hold the species of this ''tingitanus''-group: * ''Planuncus (Planuncus) tingitanus'' (Bolivar, 1914) (org. ''Ectobius perspicillaris tingitanus'') * ''Planuncus (Planuncus) finoti'' (Chopard, 1943) (org. ''Ectobius finoti'') * ''Planuncus (Planuncus) vinzi'' (Maurel, 2012) (org. ''Ectobius vinzi'') 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Planuncus tingitanus s.l.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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