Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > 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

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Periplaneta*	Burmeister, 1838	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Blatta americana*	Linnaeus, 1758	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: Amerikansk kakerlak sources: danish PESI focal point

Dutch: Grote kakkerlak sources: Dutch Species Register

English-United States: American Cockroach; Ship Cockroach sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: amerikansk kackerlacka

Taxon found in 927 publications.

No records found.

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Citation

Prof. Dr Horst Bohn. Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=402075

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2011-01-04 by Dr Klaus-Gerhard Heller & by Prof. Dr Horst Bohn

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