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Superfamily Blaberoidea

Cockroach - Cariblatta lutea Unknown Cockroach - Nauphoeta cinerea - male What kind?? - Parcoblatta pennsylvanica Pycnoscelus surinamensis Parcoblatta pennsylvanica - male Ectobius pallidus NJ October - Ectobius pallidus Parcoblatta virginica? - Parcoblatta uhleriana - male New Jersey Cockroach - Parcoblatta pennsylvanica
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Blattodea (Cockroaches and Termites)
Superfamily Blaberoidea
Numbers
2 families, with >40 spp. (of which about a dozen adventive) in ~20 genera in our area(1), ~3,500 spp. in almost 400 genera worldwide(2)
Range
worldwide(2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Beccaloni G.W. (2007‒2023) Cockroach species file
Contributed by v belov on 17 December, 2011 - 1:07pm

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