Pycnoscelus

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Pycnoscelus
Pycnoscelus indicus.jpg
Pycnoscelus indicus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Blaberidae
Subfamily: Pycnoscelinae
Genus: Pycnoscelus
Scudder, 1862

Pycnoscelus is a genus of cockroaches in the family Blaberidae. Species in the genus Pycnoscelus are recorded from India, China and SE Asia. [1] [2] [3]

Species

The Cockroach species file records for genus Pycnoscelus:

  1. Pycnoscelus aurantius Hanitsch, 1935
  2. Pycnoscelus confertus (Walker, 1869)
  3. Pycnoscelus femapterus Roth, 1998
  4. Pycnoscelus gorochovi Anisyutkin, 2002
  5. Pycnoscelus indicus (Fabricius, 1775)
  6. Pycnoscelus janetscheki Bey-Bienko, 1968
  7. Pycnoscelus micropterus Hanitsch, 1931
  8. Pycnoscelus niger (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
  9. Pycnoscelus rothi Anisyutkin, 2002
  10. Pycnoscelus rufus Bey-Bienko, 1950
  11. Pycnoscelus schwendingeri Anisyutkin, 2018
  12. Pycnoscelus semivitreus Princis, 1967
  13. Pycnoscelus striatus (Kirby, 1903)
  14. Pycnoscelus surinamensis (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (Surinam cockroach)
  15. Pycnoscelus tenebriger (Walker, 1868)
  16. Pycnoscelus vietnamensis Anisyutkin, 2002

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.W. (2024). "Cockroach species file online" . Retrieved 2024-12-06.
  2. "Pycnoscelus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  3. "Pycnoscelus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-12-26.