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Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758)

American cockroach; ship cockroach; Bombay canary

Copyright Victor Demeshko Periplaneta americana adult female. Captive reared Depicts Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), an Otu.
Copyright Victor Demeshko Periplaneta americana adult female. Captive reared Depicts Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), an Otu.
Copyright Orin McMonigle Adult Periplaneta americana white-eyed mutation. Captive reared Depicts Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), an Otu.
Copyright Victor Demeshko Periplaneta americana adult male. Captive reared Depicts Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), an Otu.
Holotype, female, ventral. BMNH(E)#877996. Depicts Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), an Otu.
Holotype, female, labels, reverse. BMNH(E)#877996. Depicts Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), an Otu.
Copyright Paul Brock American Cockroach. Periplaneta americana. Captive stock Depicts Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), an Otu.
Holotype, female, dorsal. BMNH(E)#877996. Depicts Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), an Otu.
Holotype, female, labels. BMNH(E)#877996. Depicts Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), an Otu.
Copyright Stephane Brouard Adult female Periplaneta americana carying ootheca Depicts Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), an Otu.

Nomenclature (21)

  • Blatta americana Linnaeus, 1758: 424.
  • Blatta ferrugineofusca Gronov, 1764: 174.
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  • Periplaneta colorata Rehn, 1901 (synonym of Blatta americana Linnaeus, 1758) in Princis, 1966: 418.
  • Blatta americana Linnaeus, 1758 in Lucañas, 2023: 953.

Nomenclature references (14)

  • De Geer, C. (1773) Orthoptera 3. In Mémoires pour servir à l'Histiore des Insectes. 1-696, 44pls. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm, Sweden. 299–554 pp.
  • Eschscholtz, J.F. (1822) Entomographien, Erste Lief., Berlin.
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  • Fourcroy, A.F.de (1785) In Entomologia Parisiensis, sive catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur, secundum methodum Geoffroeanum. Paris. Vol. 1.
  • Gronov, L.T. (1764)
  • Jouan, H. (1864) Additions a la Faune de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. tom.x, 305.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) In Systema naturae 1, ed. 10, Holmiae.
  • Lucañas, C.C. (2023) Revisions on the genus Periplaneta Burmeister, 1838 (Blattodea: Blattidae: Blattinae) part 1: two new genera from the Philippines and Borneo. Oriental Insects, 57(3), 951–966. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2022.2164804
  • Marshall, J.A. (1983) The orthopteroid insects described by Linnaeus, with notes on the Linnaean collection. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 78, 375–396.
  • Princis, K. (1966) Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. In Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage. Issue 8, pp. 402–614.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1901) Remarks on some Mexican Orthoptera, with descriptions of news species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 27, 218–229.
  • Risso (1826)
  • Stoll, C. (1813) In Represent. exact. coloree d'apres nature d. Spectres... 2. Amsterdam.
  • Sulzer, J.H. (1776) In Abgek. Gesch. D. Insekten 1-2, Winterthur.
  • Walker, F. (1868) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), E. Newman, Printer, London. 239 pp.

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