Blattidae


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Blat·ti·dae

(blat'i-dē),
A family of insects (order Blattaria) consisting of over 4000 species of cockroaches, largely tropic but worldwide in distribution, including a number of abundant pests of households, kitchens, and institutions or facilities, wherever food is present; noxious wherever found, yet not positively incriminated in natural transmission of pathogenic organisms to man. Common household pests include the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, and the oriental cockroach, Blatta orientalis.
[L. blatta, cockroach]
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New or Little known Neotropical Blattidae (Orthoptera), number two.
Relacion e ilustracion de algunas especies de Nyctiborinae de Colombia y Costa Rica (Insecta: Blattodea, Ectobiidae)
Tenebrionidae 0 4 0 Cantharidae 0 0 0 Chrysomelidae 1 1 1 Cerambycidae 0 0 0 Dictyoptera Blattellidae 126 152 73 Blattellidae 2 0 0 0 Blattidae Periplaneta 3 4 0 americana Blaberidae 0 0 0 Diptera Culicidae Phoniomyia 2 3 0 sp.
Diversidad y abundancia de la artropofauna en bromelias de bosques de manglar de la bahia de buenaventura (Valle, Colombia)
An account of the Blattidae (Orthoptera) from Celebes, the Moluccas, and New Guinea.
The species of Allacta (Blattodea: Ectobiidae: Pseudophyllodromiinae) occurring in China, with a description of a new species
Flora indigena de cucarachas (Dictyoptera: Blattidae y Blattellidae): Un analisis bacteriologico ultraes tructural.
Una vision de la biologia tropical a traves del microscopio electronico
Los insectos recolectados resultaron pertenecer al orden Orthoptera Suborden Blattaria, Familia Blattidae, especie Pycnoscelus surinamensis, FIG.
Oxyspirura mansoni (Spirurida: thelaziidae) en gallos de pelea del estado trujillo. Nota tecnica
Description of some new genera and species of Blattidae (Orthoptera).
Blattodea of Kolhapur District with the first record of Supella (Supella) Longipalpa (Blattodea: Blattellidae) for the state of Maharashtra, India

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