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species Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister, 1838

• Common name(s):  brown cockroach; southern brown cockroach
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• Supplementary information:
  • Domiciliary pest.
• Distribution:
  •  circumtropical [African origin]
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Domiciliary pest
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations:
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2(2):503 >> Periplaneta brunnea    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:290
  • Princis. 1966. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(8):438 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005. >> Periplaneta brunnea

• synonym concolor Walker, 1868
• synonym ignota Shaw, 1925
• synonym patens Walker, 1868
• synonym truncata Krauss, 1892

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