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species Polyphaga aegyptiaca (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Common name(s):  Egyptian cockroach; Egyptian desert cockroach
• Images: (13) See all images

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• Distribution:
  •  Turkmenistan; Caucasus Mountains; Iran; Iraq; Turkey; Syria; Palestine; Cyprus; Greece (Crete Island); Greece; Croatia; Italy (south); Italy (Sicily); Algeria; Tunisia; Libya; Egypt; Eritrea; Saudi Arabia
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Occasionally a domiciliary pest
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations:
  • Linnaeus. 1758. Systema naturae 1, ed. 10, Holmiae 424 >> Blatta aegyptiaca    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:1300
  • Princis. 1962. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Subordo Polyphagoidea: Fam. Polyphagidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(3):48 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005. >> Polyphaga aegyptiaca    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:1299
  • Kamran, Schapheer, Ali, Maldonado, Iqbal, Arif & Villagra. 2021. Entomological Research 51:624 >> Polyphaga aegyptiaca
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality:
  • Kind of type:  unspecified primary type
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  UUZM Uppsala

• synonym lata (Gistel, 1856)
• synonym omega (Costa, 1839)
• synonym punctata (Fischer, 1846)
• synonym sphaerica (Gistel, 1856)
• synonym spinifer (Kirby, 1910)
• synonym spinipes (Fischer, 1846)
• synonym trichoprocta (Fischer, 1833)

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