Barrow Island Wingless Cockroach
Melanozosteria
FP-14262 (BWI)
Discoverer: V.W. Framenau (2025)
Fauna Portal species: 14262
Order: Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
Family: Blattidae
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
1 ♀
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Harry Butler Institute
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N2519-5
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6 May 2006
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Australia
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Western Australia
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Barrow Island, WAPET Landing
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
The map shows all records that have been verified as part of the Fauna Portal project and may not represent the true distribution of a species. Specifically, for described species, check the link to the Atlas of Living Australia on this page for potential wider distributions. Fauna Portal Reference specimens and Linnean types are shown in red. If you identified a specimen that exceeds the distribution of an undescribed species as illustrated here, please contact the Fauna Portal team who can assist with the lodgement of the specimen in a public institution and display on the map.
Volker Framenau, 14 January 2026
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Insecta
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Mantodea (Praying Mantises)
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Myriapoda
