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[5] [6] The name "cockroach" comes from the Spanish word for cockroach, cucaracha, transformed by 1620s English folk etymology into "cock" and "roach". [7] The scientific name derives from the Latin blatta, "an insect that shuns the light", which in classical Latin was applied not only to cockroaches, but also to mantids. [8] [9]
Species: I. bilunata. Binomial name; Ischnoptera bilunata. Saussure, 1869. Ischnoptera bilunata, is a species of cockroach in the family Ectobiidae. It is found in ...
Binomial name; Eurycotis lixa. Rehn, 1930. Eurycotis lixa, the hustler cockroach, is a species of cockroach in the family Blattidae.
Therea petiveriana, variously called the desert cockroach, seven-spotted cockroach, domino cockroach, or Indian domino cockroach, is a species of crepuscular cockroach found in southern India. They are members of a basal group within the cockroaches.
The Florida woods cockroach (Eurycotis floridana) is a large cockroach species which typically grows to a length of 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in). [2] When alarmed, adults can eject an extremely foul-smelling directional spray up to one metre (3.3 ft), [3] which inspired several of its other common names: Florida skunk roach, Florida stinkroach, skunk cockroach, skunk roach, stinking cockroach ...
This species was originally described by French entomologist Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1789 as Blatta cinerea. In 1838 Hermann Burmeister established a new genus for this species, Nauphoeta, giving it the current binomial name Nauphoeta cinerea. It is the sole species in this genus.
Binomial name; Parcoblatta pensylvanica (De Geer, 1773) ... A 1966 article said that it is the only species of cockroach that is definitely native to Ontario, [7] ...
Binomial name; Neostylopyga rhombifolia (Stoll, 1813) Neostylopyga rhombifolia, the harlequin roach, is a species of cockroach in the family Blattidae.