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species

Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758

Oriental cockroach
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758: Copyright Victor Demeshko. Blatta orientalis adult male. Captive reared. (Otu).
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758: Copyright Victor Demeshko. Blatta orientalis adult male. Captive reared. (Otu).
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758: Copyright Victor Demeshko. Blatta orientalis adult female. Captive reared. (Otu).
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758: Copyright Victor Demeshko. Blatta orientalis nymph. Captive reared. (Otu).
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758: Copyright Josef Dvorák. Blatta orientalis. (Otu).
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758: Copyright Paul Brock. Common or Oriental Cockroach, Blatta orientalis, female. Captive stock. (Otu).
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758: Copyright Paul Brock. Common or Oriental Cockroach, Blatta orientalis, male. Captive stock. (Otu).
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758: (Otu).
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758: (Otu).

Nomenclature (34)

  • Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758: 424.

    Lectotype; male; 216c959b-ee13-4546-987b-dde65adc3f85; deposited at: Linnean Society of London (LINN);

  • Blatta lucifuga Poda, 1761: 49.
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  • Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758 in Kamran, Schapheer, Ali, Maldonado, Iqbal, Arif & Villagra, 2021: 624.
  • Blatta badia Saussure, 1863 in Hollier, Marshall, Legendre & Poggi, 2023: 78.

Nomenclature references (21)

  • Adelung, N. (1910) Ueber einige bemerkenswerte Orthopteren aus dem palaearktischen Asien. Horae Soc. ent. ross., 39, 328–358.
  • Billberg, G.J. (1820) Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gustave Johann Billberg. Typis Gadelianis, Stockholm, 138 pp.
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  • Blanchard, C.É. (1851) Fauna Chilena. Insectos. Orden IV. Ortopteros. Historia Fisica y Politica de Chile: Zoologia, 6, 5–85.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1903) The Orthoptera of Indiana. Annual Report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana, 27, 123–471. [1902]
  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1838) Kakerlaken, Schaben. Blattina. Handbuch der Entomologie, 2(2), 469–517.
  • De Geer, C. (1773) Douzieme memoire: Des Grillons, Des Blattes, & Des Perce-Oreilles. In Mémoires pour servir à l'Histiore des Insectes. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm, Sweden. pp. 505–554. [696 pp.]
  • Gistel, J.von N.F.X. (1856) Die Mysterien der europäischen Insectenwelt. Tobias Dannheimer, Kempten, pp. 532 pp.
  • Hollier, J., Marshall, J.A., Legendre, F. & Poggi, R. (2023) An annotated list of the Blattodea (Insecta) described by Henri de Saussure. Part 3: the Blattidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 130(1), 77–88. https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0089
  • Kamran, K., Schapheer, C., Ali, A., Maldonado, A.K., Iqbal, A., Arif, S. & Villagra, C. (2021) Spatial distribution of synanthropic cockroaches found in Quetta, Pakistan and antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains found in Shelfordella lateralis (Walker, 1868) (Blattodea: Blattidae). Entomological Research, 51, 624–638.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) In Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tom. I. Editio decima, reformata, Holmiae : Laur. Salvii. 824 pp.
  • Marshall, J.A. (1983) The orthopteroid insects described by Linnaeus, with notes on the Linnaean collection. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 78, 375–396.
  • Philippi, R.A. (1863) Verzeichniss der im Museum von Santiago befindlichen Chilenischen Orthoperen. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 21(3-4), 217–245.
  • Poda, N. (1761) Insecta Musei Græcensis, quæ in ordines, genera et species juxta systema naturæ Caroli Linnæi. W. Junk, Berlin, 127 pp.
  • Princis, K. (1966) Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. In M. Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 8. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage [The Hague]. pp. 402–614.
  • Saussure, H.de (1863) Mélanges Orthoptérologiques, I. Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 17, 129–170 1pl.
  • Schaeffer, J.C. (1779) Icones insectorum circa ratisbonam indigenorum coloribus naturam referentibus expressae. Naturlich Ausgemahlte Abbildungen Regensburgscher Insecten, 2, 101–200 tabula.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1862) Materials for a monograph of the North American Orthoptera including a catalogue of the known New England species. Boston Journal of Natural History, 7(3), 409–480. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/materialsformono00scudrich
  • Semenov-Tian-Shansky, A.P. (1909) [Review of] Adelung, Nicolai von. Beiträge zur Orthopterenfauna der südlichen Krim. I, Blattodea und Locustodea [partim], gesammelt von N. J. Kusnezov. 1897-1905. [Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St-Pétersbourg, XII, No 3, 1907, pp. 388-413]. Rev. russ. Ent., 8, 205–206.
  • 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]
  • Thunberg, C.P. (1810) Nagra Nya Species af Blattae slagtet. Kunglica Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 31, 185–198. [In the original document, page 185 has mistakenly been printed as 158.]
  • Zulfikaroglu, T., Turgay-Izzetoglu, G., Yikilmaz, M.S. & Izzetoglu, S. (2021) Demonstrating the general structure and cell types of the fat body in Blatta orientalis (Oriental Cockroach). Anatomia Histologia Embryologia, 51(1), 23–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/ahe.12748

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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species101516
subspecies0011
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: eastern, oriental.