Cockroaches from the Seychelles Islands (Dictyoptera : Blattaria)

Journal of African Zoology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 97-128

  Roth, Louis M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cockroaches; Key; New combination; New homonym; New name; New record; New synonym; Seychelles Islands; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

NEW RECORD; TAXONOMY;

SEYCHELLES;

BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA LITURICOLLIS; BLATTELLIDAE; DICTYOPTERA; ISCHNOPTERA ALDABRENSIS; ISCHNOPTERA GARDINERI; MARETA ACUTICERCA; MARETA DEPRESSICEPS; MARGATTEA; MARGATTEA NIMBATA NIMBATA; MARGATTEA PHILIPPINENSIS; MIRIAMROTHSCHILDIA; PARASIGMOIDELLA; SHELFORDINA PHILIPPINENSIS; SLIFERIA; SYMPLOCE PALLENS; THEGANOPTERYX RETICULATA;

EID: 0030425451     PISSN: 07767943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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