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Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758

Dataset
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Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae 1, ed. 10, Holmiae.
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Blattodea
family
Blattidae
genus
Blatta
species
Blatta orientalis

Name

Synonyms
Blatta badia Saussure, 1863
Blatta castanea Blanchard, 1851
Blatta culinaris De Geer, 1773
Blatta europaea Bartsch, 1846
Blatta ferruginea Thunberg, 1810
Blatta hemialata Gistel, 1856
Blatta lucifuga Poda, 1761
Blatta secunda Schaeffer, 1769
Blatta tertia Schaeffer, 1769
Kakerlac castanea Blanchard, 1851
Kakerlac pallipes Philippi, 1863
Kakerlac platystetho Philippi, 1863
Pulex imperator Westwood, 1858
Stylopyga gracilis Adelung, 1910
Stylopyga spontanea Semenov-Tian-Shansky, 1909
Homonyms
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758
Blatta orientalis Sulzer, 1776
Common names
Küchenschabe in German
Oriental coackroach in English
Oriental cockroach in English
Oriental cockroach in English
Oriental cockroach in English
Oriental cockroach in English
Orientalische Schabe, Bäcker-, Küchenschabe in German
Orientalsk kakerlak in Danish
bakkerstor in Dutch
blatte orientale in French
common cockroach, oriental cockroach in English
oriental cockroach in language.
oriental cockroach in English
Bakkerstor in Dutch
Oriental Cockroach in English
orientalisk kackerlacka in Swedish
Common Cockroach in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Atkinson, Thomas H., Philip G. Koehler, and Richard S. Patterson, 1991: Catalog and Atlas of the Cockroaches of North America North of Mexico. Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America, no. 78. 1-85.
  2. Fauna Europaea (1899-12-31 23:00:00) http://www.faunaeur.org
  3. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 64 Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology (a) of the specific names of nineteen species belonging to the class Insecta, each of which is the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936 and (B) of the specific names of three species belonging to the same class which are currently treated as senior Subjective synonyms of the names of such species.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1E, 61-74 (1957)
  4. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema naturae 1, ed. 10, Holmiae 424
  5. Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds., 1997: Blattodea. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America: vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders. 31-39.
  6. Princis. 1966. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus, W. Junk, s'Gravenhage(8):475
  7. Turner, Blake, and Liebhold (2021), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5245302
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