Species Periplaneta brunnea - Brown Cockroach

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited

Periplaneta bru*nnea - Periplaneta brunnea - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Blattodea (Cockroaches and Termites)

Superfamily Blattoidea

Family Blattidae

Subfamily Blattinae

Genus Periplaneta

Species brunnea (Brown Cockroach)

Other Common Names

Southern Brown Cockroach

Explanation of Names

Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister 1838

Size

adults 31–37 mm(1)

Identification

dark brown to reddish brown, with pale brown markings on the pronotum; wings cover the tip of the abdomen in both sexes; closely resembles P. americana, distinguished by the short supraanal plate (epiproct) and short, blunt cerci on the adults; oothecae ~2.6 mm longer than in P. australasiae and 5.2 mm longer than in P. americana(1)

Range

native to Africa, now circumtropical; carried with food to temperate regions and survives in heated environments in urban areas; in our area, well established from FL to TX, introduced into CA(1)(2)

Habitat

primarily indoors in colder climate; mainly outdoors (under bark, in sewers) in warm regions(1)(3)

Remarks

earliest NA record: IL 1907(1)

Works Cited

1.	Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.

2.	Beccaloni G.W. (2007‒2023) Cockroach species file

3.	Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.

Contributed by John Carlson on 16 May, 2011 - 9:26am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 21 March, 2014 - 11:10am

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