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species Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784)

• Nomenclatural details:  Not fusca of Seba, 1765?
• Common name(s):  Cape mountain cockroach
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• Distribution:
  •  South Africa (Cape province)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations:
  • Thunberg. 1784. Dissert. entom. novas Ins. species sistens 4, Upsaliae 77 >> Blatta fusca    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:7482
  • Princis. 1964. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam.: Panchloridae, Gynopeltididae, Derocalymmidae, Perisphaeriidae, Pycnoscelididae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(6):198 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005. >> Aptera fusca    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:7481

• synonym aptera (Zschach, 1788)
• synonym cingulata (Burmeister, 1838)
• synonym crassa (Walker, 1868)
• synonym lenticularis Saussure, 1864
• synonym multicincta (Walker, 1868)
• synonym rubricosa (Walker, 1868)

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