Some cockroaches from Africa and Islands of the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of three new species (Blattaria)

Transactions of the American Entomological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 163-182

  Roth, Louis M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BLATTARIA; INVERTEBRATA; POLYPHAGIDAE;

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