Holocompsa
Genus of cockroaches
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Holocompsa is a genus of hairy sand cockroaches in the family Corydiidae. It is the only genus in the subfamily Holocompsinae.[1]
| Holocompsa | |
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| Holocompsa azteca | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Corydiidae |
| Genus: | Holocompsa Burmeister, 1838 |
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:[3][2]
- 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)
