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Blattidae

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Periplaneta australasiae
Containing group: Blattaria

References

Grandcolas, P. 1996. The phylogeny of cockroach families: A cladistic appraisal of morpho-anatomical data. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74(3):508-527.

Grandcolas, P. 1997. Systematique phylogenetique de la sous-famille des Tryonicinae (Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Blattidae). Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 171:91-124.

McKittrick, F. A. 1964. Evolutionary study of cockroaches. Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Memoirs 389:1-197.

Princis, K. 1965. Blattariae: Subordo Blaberoidea. Fam.: Archiblattidae. Pages 386-389 in Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 7. M. Beier, ed. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage.

Princis, K. 1966. Blattariae: Subordo Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae. Pages 401-602 in Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 8. M. Beier, ed. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage.

Roth, L. M. 1993. The genus Macrocerca Hanitsch with descriptions of new species (Blattaria, Blattidae: Macrocercinae, subfam. n.) Entomologica Scandinavica 24(3):343-360.

Roth, L. M. 1994. New Queensland cockroaches of Macrocerca Hanitsch and Periplaneta Burmeister (Blattidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35(1):225-233.

Roth, L. M. 2003. Lamproglandifera flavoglandis, n. gen., n. sp., from Brazil is described (Blattidae: Lamproblattinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 129(2): 285-293.

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Periplaneta australasiae
Scientific Name Periplaneta australasiae
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Copyright © Peter Clausen
Scientific Name Euzosteria mitchelli
Reference R. Shelford. 1910. Orthoptera. Fam. Blattidae. Subfam. Blattinae (=Periplanetinae). Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 109:1-27
Scientific Name Homalosilpha vicina
Reference R. Shelford. 1910. Orthoptera. Fam. Blattidae. Subfam. Blattinae (=Periplanetinae). Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 109:1-27
Scientific Name Scabina antipoda
Reference R. Shelford. 1910. Orthoptera. Fam. Blattidae. Subfam. Blattinae (=Periplanetinae). Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 109:1-27
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