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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 (29)

  • 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 (16)

  • Adelung, N. (1910) Ueber einige bemerkenswerte Orthopteren aus dem palaearktischen Asien. Horae Soc. ent. ross., 39, 328–358.
  • Blanchard, C.É. (1851) Insectos. Orden IV. Ortopteros. In Hist. fis. polit. de Chile, Zool. 6, Paris. Vol. 6, pp. 5–85.
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  • De Geer, C. (1773)
  • Gistel, J.von N.F.X. (1856)
  • 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). 51, 624–638.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) In Systema naturae 1, ed. 10, Holmiae.
  • 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 (1863)
  • Poda (1761)
  • Princis, K. (1966) Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. In Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage. Issue 8, 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 (1769)
  • 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.
  • Thunberg, C.P. (1810)
  • 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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