Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Order Dictyoptera > Suborder Blattodea > Family Blattidae > Subfamily Blattinae > Genus Periplaneta

Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Blatta Linnaeus, 1758

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Genus group names

*Periplaneta*	Burmeister, 1838	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: Amerikansk kakerlak sources: danish PESI focal point

Dutch: Grote kakkerlak sources: Dutch Species Register

English: American Cockroach; Ship Cockroach sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: amerikansk kackerlacka

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Citation

Dr. Klaus-Gerhard Heller. Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/9b40e71d-3cb0-494b-be68-796d5de3bd60

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by Dr. Klaus-Gerhard Heller & by Prof. Dr. Horst Bohn

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