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Fortiblatta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775)

Australian cockroach

Fortiblatta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775): Copyright Victor Demeshko. Periplaneta australasiae nymph. Captive reared. (Otu).
Fortiblatta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775): Copyright Victor Demeshko. Periplaneta australasiae nymph. Captive reared. (Otu).
Fortiblatta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775): Copyright Josef Dvorák. Periplaneta australasiae. (Otu).
Fortiblatta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775): Holotype, unsexed, dorsal. BMNH(E)#877997. (Otu).
Fortiblatta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775): Holotype, unsexed, ventral. BMNH(E)#877997. (Otu).
Fortiblatta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775): Holotype, unsexed, labels. BMNH(E)#877997. (Otu).
Fortiblatta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775): Holotype, unsexed, labels, reverse. BMNH(E)#877997. (Otu).

Nomenclature (23)

  • Blatta australasiae Fabricius, 1775: 271.
  • Blatta aurantiaca Stoll, 1813: Plate 3d, page 5.
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  • Periplaneta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775) in Cathrine, 2022
  • Fortiblatta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775) in Luo, Deng, Han, Lo, Cai, Che & Wang, 2025: 9.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Beauvois Ambroise Marie François Joseph (1818) In Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en Amérique, dans les Royaumes D'Oware et de Benin, á Saint-Dominique et dans les états-unis, pendant les années 1786-1797. Paris. . Issue 1.
  • Billberg, G.J. (1820) Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gustave Johann Billberg. Typis Gadelianis, Stockholm, 138 pp.
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  • Blatchley, W.S. (1903) The Orthoptera of Indiana. Annual Report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana, 27, 123–471. [1902]
  • Cathrine, C. (2022) The cockroaches (Dictyoptera) of Glasgow Botanic Gardens with a summary of the known distribution of Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758) and P. australasiae (Fabricius, 1775) in Scotland. Glasgow Naturalist, 27(4), 68–69.
  • De Luna, M., Garcia-Barrios, R. & Cuellar-Rodriguez, G. (2021) New records of exotic cockroaches (Insecta: Blattodea) from northeast Mexico, with an illustrated identification key for the species of Blattidae of North America. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie), 37, 1–13.
  • Fabricius, J.C. (1775) Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorvm classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibvs, observationibvs. Officina Libraria Kortii, Flensburg and Leipzig, 832 pp.
  • Luo, X., Deng, W., Han, W., Lo, N., Cai, J.-Z., Che, Y.-L. & Wang, Z.-Q. (2025) Revision of the cockroach subfamily Blattinae based on morphological and molecular analyses. Systematic Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12680
  • Princis, K. (1966) Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. In Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage. Issue 8, pp. 402–614.
  • Stoll, C. (1813) Représentation exactement coloree d'apres nature des Spectres ou Phasmes, des Mantes, des Sauterelles, des Grillons, des Criquets et des Blattes, qui se trouvent dans les quatre parties du Monde. L'Europe, L'Asia, L'Afrique et L'Amerique; ressemblées et déscrites. C.J. Sepp & Fils, Amsterdam. [Apparently this is Vol. 2, though not found in the front matter.]
  • Temminck, C.J. (1842) Verhand. natuurl. Geschied. Nederl. overz. Besitt. 16, Zool. No. 6, Leiden.
  • Walker, F. (1868) Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), E. Newman, Printer, London, 239 pp.
  • Walker, F. (1871) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Supplement to the Catalogue of Blattariae. British Museum (Natural History) London : British Museum (Natural History), London. 40 pp.

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Etymology:

From Australasia.