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Genus Blattella

German! - Blattella germanica - female Face Mostly Pale - Blattella asahinai German Cockroach? Male? - Blattella germanica - male Female, German Cockroach and ootheca? - Blattella germanica roach ? - Blattella vaga Mojave-30 - Blattella vaga Field Cockroach - Blattella vaga Blattella vaga? - Blattella vaga
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Blattodea (Cockroaches and Termites)
Superfamily Blaberoidea
Family Ectobiidae
Subfamily Blattellinae
Genus Blattella
Explanation of Names
Blattella Caudell 1903
'little Blatta'
Numbers
3 spp. (all adventive) in our area, >50 spp. total(1)
Identification
among our spp.,
B. germanica:

B. asahinai has a more slender body and more grey tones to its wing color. The pronotum colors more contrasting than in B. germanica, and the lateral edges of the abdomen are pale:

B. vaga, unlike B. germanica, is not afraid of light, flies readily, and has dark frons:
Print References
Roth LM. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the genus Blattella Caudell (Dictyoptera, Blattaria: Blattellidae). Entomologica Scandinavica, Supplement 22: 1–221.