Periplaneta

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Periplaneta
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Periplaneta americana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Blattidae
Subfamily: Blattinae
Genus: Periplaneta
Burmeister, 1838
Synonyms
  • Cacerlaca Saussure, 1864
  • Paramethana Shelford, 1909
  • Shelfordella Adelung, 1910

Periplaneta is a genus of cockroaches [1] [2] containing some of the well-known pest species with cosmopolitan distributions, such as:

Contents

Species

The Cockroach Species File [3] lists:

  1. Periplaneta aboriginea Roth, 1994
  2. Periplaneta affinis Saussure, 1869
  3. Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Blatta americanaLinnaeus)
  4. Periplaneta arabica (Bey-Bienko, 1938)
  5. Periplaneta arisanica Shiraki, 1931
  6. Periplaneta atemeleta Princis, 1966
  7. Periplaneta atrata Bey-Bienko, 1969
  8. Periplaneta atricollis Saussure, 1899
  9. Periplaneta australis (MacLeay, 1827)
  10. Periplaneta banksi Hanitsch, 1931
  11. Periplaneta basedowi Tepper, 1904
  12. Periplaneta benzoni Princis, 1951
  13. Periplaneta bicolor Shelford, 1908
  14. Periplaneta blattoides Hanitsch, 1933
  15. Periplaneta capeneri Princis, 1963
  16. Periplaneta caudata Bey-Bienko, 1969
  17. Periplaneta cylindrica (Thunberg, 1826)
  18. Periplaneta diamesa Bey-Bienko, 1954
  19. Periplaneta ebneri Princis, 1951
  20. Periplaneta ferreirae Princis, 1963
  21. Periplaneta fictor Princis, 1966
  22. Periplaneta floweri Hanitsch, 1931
  23. Periplaneta formosana Karny, 1915
  24. Periplaneta indica Karny, 1908
  25. Periplaneta japanna Asahina, 1969
  26. Periplaneta lateralis Walker, 1868
  27. Periplaneta lebedinskii Adelung, 1903
  28. Periplaneta liui Bey-Bienko, 1957
  29. Periplaneta malaica Karny, 1908
  30. Periplaneta media Chopard, 1938
  31. Periplaneta methanoides Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898
  32. Periplaneta monochroma Walker, 1871
  33. Periplaneta nigra Princis, 1966
  34. Periplaneta nitida (Bolívar, 1890)
  35. Periplaneta quadrinotata Princis, 1950
  36. Periplaneta robusta (Shelford, 1909)
  37. Periplaneta savignyi Krauss, 1890
  38. Periplaneta semenovi Bey-Bienko, 1950
  39. Periplaneta spinosostylata Krauss, 1902
  40. Periplaneta stygia Shelford, 1909
  41. Periplaneta sublobata Bey-Bienko, 1969
  42. Periplaneta suzukii Asahina, 1977
  43. Periplaneta valida Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
  44. Periplaneta vosseleri Shelford, 1908

References

  1. ↑ Schafer, Rollie; Sanchez, Thomas V. (June 1976). "The nature and development of sex attractant specificity in cockroaches of the genusPeriplaneta. I. Sexual dimorphism in the distribution of antennal sense organs in five species". Journal of Morphology. 149 (2): 139–157. doi:10.1002/jmor.1051490202. hdl: 2027.42/50261 . ISSN   0362-2525. PMID   933170. S2CID   3164885.
  2. ↑ Lucañas, Cristian C. (2023-01-18). "Revisions on the genus Periplaneta Burmeister, 1838 (Blattodea: Blattidae: Blattinae) part 1: two new genera from the Philippines and Borneo" . Oriental Insects: 1–16. doi:10.1080/00305316.2022.2164804. ISSN   0030-5316. S2CID   256077346.
  3. ↑ Cockroach Species File: genus Periplaneta Burmeister, 1838 (Version 5.0/5.0 retrieved 7 July 2025)
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