sinensis Saussure, 1869: 282-283 [Homoeogamia] Nord de la Chine; Pekin. Two ♂. The MHNG collection contains one ♂ specimen (MHNG-ARTO-20468) with labels: “ ♂ Pekin, Chine, M. H de Saussure ” [handwritten on ruled white card]; “ Heterogamia sinensis Sauss. ♂ ” [handwritten on yellow paper]; Heterog. sinensis Sauss. ” [handwritten on blue paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. The specimen is directly pinned with the left wings spread and the right wings folded. There is insect feeding damage to the head, and the left antenna, the last tarsal segment of the right middle leg, the last tarsal segment of the left hind leg and all of the tarsi of the right hind leg are missing. Box Blattodea 59. The whereabouts of the other syntype is unknown. This species is not listed in the CSF database. Kirby (1903: 379) considered Polyphaga sinensis (Saussure, 1869) to be a junior homonym of P. sinensis Walker, 1868 and proposed the replacement name P. limbata. Replaced by Eupolyphaga limbata (Kirby, 1903)

Published as part of Hollier, John, Marshall, Judith & Legendre, Frédéric, 2020, An annotated list of the Blattodea (Insecta) described by Henri de Saussure. Part 1: the Corydiidae, pp. 341-348 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (2) on page 347, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0023, http://zenodo.org/record/5743830