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species Pycnoscelus surinamensis (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Common name(s):  Surinam cockroach
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• Supplementary information:
  • Pest of economic importance.
• Distribution:
  •  circumtropical [Asian origin]
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Domiciliary pest
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations:
  • Linnaeus. 1758. Systema naturae 1, ed. 10, Holmiae 424 >> Blatta surinamensis    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8322
  • Princis. 1964. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam.: Panchloridae, Gynopeltididae, Derocalymmidae, Perisphaeriidae, Pycnoscelididae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(6):264 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005. >> Pycnoscelus surinamensis    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8321

• synonym celebesa (Walker, 1868)
• synonym corticum (Serville, 1838)
• synonym crassipes (Walker, 1868)
• synonym dimorpha (Shiraki, 1906)
• synonym laevis (Le Guillou, 1841)
• synonym latipes (Walker, 1868)
• synonym major Roeser, 1940
• synonym melanocephala (Stoll, 1813)
• synonym minor Roeser, 1940
• synonym obscurus Scudder, 1862
• synonym occipitalis (Walker, 1871)
• synonym tatei (Tepper, 1894)

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