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species Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758

• Common name(s):  Oriental cockroach
• Images: (6) See all images
• Supplementary information:
  • Domiciliary pest.
• Distribution:
  •  cosmopolitan in temperate regions [southern Russian origin]
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Domiciliary pest
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations:
  • Zulfikaroglu, Turgay-Izzetoglu, Yikilmaz & Izzetoglu. Date unknown. Anatomia Histologia Embryologia 51(1):23-35 >> Blatta orientalis
  • Linnaeus. 1758. Systema naturae 1, ed. 10, Holmiae 424 >> Blatta orientalis
  • Princis. 1966. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(8):475 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005. >> Blatta orientalis
  • Kamran, Schapheer, Ali, Maldonado, Iqbal, Arif & Villagra. 2021. Entomological Research 51:624 >> Blatta orientalis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality:
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  LSUK Linnean

• synonym badia Saussure, 1863
• synonym castanea (Blanchard, 1851)
• synonym culinaris De Geer, 1773
• synonym ferruginea Thunberg, 1810
• synonym gracilis (Adelung, 1910)
• synonym hemialata Gistel, 1856
• synonym lucifuga Poda, 1761
• synonym pallipes (Philippi, 1863)
• synonym platystetho (Philippi, 1863)
• synonym secunda Schaeffer, 1769
• synonym spontanea (Semenov-Tian-Shansky, 1909)
• synonym tertia Schaeffer, 1769
• nomen nudum europaea Bartsch, 1846
• nomen nudum imperator (Westwood, 1858)

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