Blattidae
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Males and females of the common cockroach ( Blatta orientalis ) |
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| Handlirsch , 1925 |
The Blattidae are a family within the cockroaches (Blattodea). Among them are a number of known storage pests and human dwellers, some of which are known as cockroaches .
Systematics
The Blattidae family is represented in Europe with the following four species, all of which were introduced as neozoa from warmer regions (unspecifically cockroach, called cockroach ):
- Common cockroach , cockroach ( Blatta orientalis Linnaeus , 1758)
- American cockroach ( Periplaneta americana ( Linnaeus , 1767))
- Brown cockroach ( Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister , 1838)
- Australian cockroach ( Periplaneta australasiae ( Fabricius , 1775))
Other known types are:
- Shelfordella lateralis (Tartar cockroach, Persian cockroach, "chocolate cockroach")
- Smoky brown cockroach ( Periplaneta fuliginosa Serville , 1838)
- Florida skunk cockroach ( Eurycotis floridana ( Walker , 1868))
Fossil occurrences
Cockroaches now live under decaying tree bark, so their appearance in amber is not surprising. Representatives of the Blattidae family have been described from Baltic amber ( Eocene ).
credentials
- ↑ Blattidae. Fauna Europaea, Version 1.3, April 19, 2007 , accessed on July 3, 2007 .
- ↑ George O. Poinar, Jr .: Life in Amber . 350 pp., 147 figs., 10 plates, Stanford University Press, Stanford (Cal.) 1992. ISBN 0-8047-2001-0
- ↑ Wolfgang Weitschat and Wilfried Wichard: Atlas of plants and animals in Baltic amber , 256 p., Numerous. Fig., Pfeil-Verlag, Munich 1998. ISBN 3-931516-45-8
Web links
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