List of cockroaches of Saudi Arabia
This is a list of cockroaches of Saudi Arabia, including both indigenous and non-indigenous species.
Order Blattodea
[edit]Family Blattelidae
[edit]- Blattella biligata[1]
- Blattella germanica German cockroach[1][2]
- Loboptera isolata[1]
- Supella longipalpa brown-banded cockroach[2]
- Supella orientalis[1]
- Supellina biquandi[1][3]
Family Blattidae
[edit]- Blatta orientalis Oriental cockroach[1][2]
- Periplaneta americana American cockroach[1][2]
- Shelfordella arabica[1]
- Shelfordella lateralis Turkestan cockroach[1]
Family Polyphagidae
[edit]- Heterogamisca chopardi[1][4]
- Polyphaga aegyptiaca Egyptian desert cockroach[1]
- Heterogamisca dispersa[1]
- Heterogamisca marmorata[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Grandcolas, Philippe (1994). "Blattaria (Insecta: Dictyoptera) of Saudi Arabia: a preliminary report" (PDF). Fauna of Saudi Arabia. 14: 40–58.
- ^ a b c d Noureldin, Elsiddig Mohamed; Farrag, Hassan (2010). "Population density of cockroach species and magnitude of their infestation in Jeddah Province, Saudi Arabia". Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Proceedings (2010): EEP30. doi:10.5339/qfarf.2010.eep30. ISSN 2220-251X.
- ^ "Synonyms of Supellina biquandi". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-04-07. Note: listed as deprecated synonym Balta biquandi in Grandicolas 1994.
- ^ Grandcolas, Philippe (1995). "Bionomics of a desert cockroach, Heterogamisca chopardi Uvarov, 1936 after the spring rainfalls in Saudi Arabia (Insecta, Blattaria, Polyphaginae)". Journal of Arid Environments. 31 (3): 325–334. doi:10.1016/S0140-1963(05)80036-9. ISSN 0140-1963.