The cockroach genus pycnoscelus scudder, with a description of pycnoscelus femapterus, sp. Nov. (Blattaria: Blaberidae: Pycnoscelinae)

Oriental Insects

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-130

  Roth, Louis M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cockroaches; One new species; Pycnoscelus; Rediagnosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032325052     PISSN: 00305316     EISSN: 21578745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00305316.1998.10433770     Document Type: Article

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