Brown cockroach
| Brown cockroach | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Blattidae |
| Genus: | Periplaneta |
| Species: | P. brunnea |
| Binomial name | |
| Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister, 1838 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Periplaneta concolor | |
The brown cockroach (Periplaneta brunnea) is a species of cockroach in the family Blattidae. It is probably originally native to Africa, but today it has a circumtropical distribution, having been widely introduced.[1] In cooler climates it can only survive indoors,[2] and it is considered a household pest.[1]
This cockroach is similar in appearance to the American cockroach (P. americana), but darker in color and with thicker, wider, triangular cerci. It is a reddish brown color and has fully developed wings.[2] It reaches up to 4 centimeters in length.[1]
It produces an ootheca about 1.2 to 1.6 centimeters long containing about 24 eggs on average.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 Periplaneta brunnea, Brown Cockroach. Cook Islands Biodiversity Database. The Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust. 2007.
- 1 2 3 Periplaneta brunnea (Burmeister, 1838). Orthopteroids of the British Isles Recording Scheme.
- ↑ Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister, 1838. PaDIL.
External links
- Black and white photographs of top view of P. brunnea male and female specimens, from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.
- Drawings of body parts of male P. brunnea; plate VII, figures 12-16 show detail of the pronotum, end of abdomen with cerci, genital process, subgenital plate, and supra-anal plate with cerci. From a 1917 article by Morgan Hebard, with a key to the figures on page 280.
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