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Polyphagidae

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Ergaula capucinaPolyphaga aegyptiaca
Containing group: Blattaria

References

Grandcolas, P. 1993. Le genre Therea Billberg, 1820: position phylogenetique, nouvelles especes, repartition, valence ecologique (Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Polyphaginae). Canadian Journal of Zoolog 71(9):1816-1822.

Grandcolas, P. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the subfamily Polyphaginae, with the assignment of Cryptocercus Scudder, 1862 to this taxon (Blatteria, Blaberoidea, Polyphagidae). Systematic Entomology 19:145–158.

Grandcolas, P. 1994. La position phylogenetique de Miroblatta Shelford, 1906 et l'evolution de la plicature des ailes chez les blattes (Dictyoptera: Blattaria). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 29(4):345-349.

McKittrick, F. A. 1964. Evolutionary study of cockroaches. Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Memoirs 389:1-197.

Roth, L. M. 1993. Revision of the cockroach genus Ctenoneura Hanitsch (Blattaria, Polyphagidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 136(1):83-109.

Roth, L. M. 1995. Revision of the cockroach genus Homopteroidea Shelford (Blattaria, Polyphagidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 138(1):103-136.

Roth, L. M. 1995. Description of a new species of Ctenoneura Hanitsch from Sabah (Blattaria, Polyphagidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 138(1):117-119.

Princis, K. 1962. Blattariae: Subordo Polyphagoidea. Fam.: Polyphagidae. Pages 1-74 in Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 3. M. Beier, ed. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage.

Princis, K. 1963. Blattariae: Subordo Polyphagoidea. Fam.: Homoeogamiidae, Euthyrrhaphidae, Latindiidae, Anacompsidae, Atticolidae, Attaphilidae. Pages 75-111 in Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 4. M. Beier, ed. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage.

Vrsansky, P. and J. Ansorge. 2001. New Lower Cretaceous polyphagid cockroaches from Spain (Blattaria, Polyphagidae, Vitisminae subfam. nov.) Cretaceous Research 22(2):157-162.

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Ergaula capucina
Scientific Name Ergaula capucina
Comments Beetle roach
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Copyright © Peter Clausen
Polyphaga aegyptiaca
Scientific Name Polyphaga aegyptiaca
Location Egypt
Comments Egyptian desert roach
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Copyright © Orin McMonigle
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