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species Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Common name(s):  American cockroach; ship cockroach; Bombay canary
• Images: (9) See all images

  specimen

• Supplementary information:
  • Domiciliary pest.
• Distribution:
  •  cosmopolitan [African origin]
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Domiciliary pest
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (12):
  • Linnaeus. 1758. Systema naturae 1, ed. 10, Holmiae 424 >> Blatta americana    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:316
  • Jouan. 1864. Me´moires de la Socie´te´ impe´riale des sciences naturelles de Cherbourg tom.x:305 >> Blatta americana
  • Princis. 1966. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(8):405 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005. >> Periplaneta americana    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:315
  • Kamran, Schapheer, Ali, Maldonado, Iqbal, Arif & Villagra. 2021. Entomological Research 51:624 >> Periplaneta americana
  • Yang, Z., Xie, Y. Yang, Sun, Jing, Y. Shen, B. Yue & X. Zhang. 2021. Entomological Research (Seoul) 51(12):587-594 >> Periplaneta americana
  • De Luna, Garcia-Barrios & Cuellar-Rodriguez. 2021. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 37:3 >> Note: New record: Mexico. >> Periplaneta americana
  • Cathrine. 2022. The Glasgow Naturalist 27(4):68-69 >> Periplaneta americana
  • Chowdhury & Bhukta. 2022. Journal of Experimental Biology 12(2):177-183 >> Periplaneta americana
  • Joda, Ademolu, Adelabu & Olalonye. 2022. Entomologica Romanica 26:81-84 >> Periplaneta americana
  • Wang, N., X.-B. Li, W.-B. Liu, Tang, J. Wang, J.-Y. Zhu & X.-B. Jin. 2022. Huanjing Kunchong Xuebao 44(1):212-220 >> Periplaneta americana
  • Wang, S., K.-S. Zhu & Du. 2022. Huanjing Kunchong Xuebao 44(1):134-145 >> Periplaneta americana
  • Zhang, L., X. Zhang & B. Yue. 2022. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 54(3):1291-1302 >> Periplaneta americana
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality:
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  LSUK Linnean

• synonym aurelianensis (Fourcroy, 1785)
• synonym colorata Rehn, 1901
• synonym domicola (Risso, 1826)
• synonym ferrugineofusca (Gronovius, 1764)
• synonym heros (Eschscholtz, 1822)
• synonym kakkerlac (De Geer, 1773)
• synonym orientalis (Sulzer, 1776)
• synonym siccifolia (Stoll, 1813)
• synonym stolida Walker, 1868

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