Household Cockroaches
Periplaneta Burmeister, 1838
Type species: Blatta americana Linnaeus, 1758
Fauna Portal Genus Number: 828
Periplaneta is currently poorly diagnosed and an apperenty polyphyletic (Djarnaes & Murienne 2022).
Cockroach Species File: https://cockroach.speciesfile.org/otus/863220/overview
Publications
Djernaes M, Murienne J (2022): Phylogeny of Blattoidea (Dictyoptera: Blattodea) with a revised classification of Blattidae. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny. 80: 209 - 228WEB
Roth LM (1994): New Queensland cockroaches of Macrocerca Hanitsch and Periplaneta Burmeister (Blattidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 35: 225 - 233
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