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species Rhyparobia maderae (Fabricius, 1781)

• Common name(s):  Madeira cockroach; drummer
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  specimen

• Supplementary information:
  • Pest of economic importance.
• Distribution:
  •  circumtropical [African origin]
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Domiciliary pest
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations:
  • Fabricius. 1781. Spec. Ins. 1:341 >> Blatta maderae    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:6229
  • Princis. 1965. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam.: Oxyhaloidae, Panesthiidae, Cryptocercidae, Chorisoneuridae, Oulopterygidae, Diplopteridae, Anaplectidae, Archiblattidae, Nothoblattidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(7):298 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005. >> Leucophaea maderae    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:6230
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality:
  • Kind of type:  unspecified primary type
  • Location of type:  ZMUC Copenhagen

• synonym illepida (Walker, 1868)
• synonym kukenthali (Shelford, 1910)
• synonym kükenthali (Shelford, 1910)
• synonym maderensia (Jones, 1859)
• synonym major (Palisot de Beauvois, 1818)
• synonym tuberculata (Thunberg, 1810)

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