Cockroach Species File

genus

Blattella Caudell, 1903

Type

Blatta germanica Linnaeus, 1767 type species of Blattella Caudell, 1903

Nomenclature (7)

Blatta Serville, 1831: 39. (homonym)
Blatta Serville, 1831 (synonym of Blattella Caudell, 1903)
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Blattella Caudell, 1903 in Princis, 1969: 806.
Blattella Caudell, 1903 in Yao, Li, Li, Wang & Che, 2024: 437. Diagnosis

Nomenclature references (5)

Caudell, A.N. (1903) Notes on the nomenclature of Blattidae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 5, 232–234.
Princis, K. (1969) Blattariae: Subordo Epilamproidea. Fam.: Blattellidae. In M. Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage. Issue 13, 712–1038 pp.
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Serville, J.G.A. (1838) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères. In Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret [Collection des Suites à Buffon]. Roret, Paris. xviii + 776 pp. [1839]
Yao, W., Li, Q.Q., Li, L.-W., Wang, Z.-Q. & Che, Y.-L. (2024) Discovery of four new Chinese species of Jacobsonina Hebard, 1929 and Blattella Caudell, 1903 (Blaberoidea: Blattellidae). Zootaxa, 5474(4), 427–440. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5474.4.5

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

	Names
Rank	Total	Valid	Invalid
genus	3	1	2
species	128	57	71
subspecies	4	2	2