Shelfordella

Genus of cockroaches

Shelfordella
Adult female Shelfordella lateralis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Blattidae
Subfamily: Blattinae
Genus: Shelfordella
Adelung, 1910
Species

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Shelfordella was a genus of cockroaches found in north-east Africa and Asia, through to western India; it is now considered a synonym of Periplaneta.[1]

Species

  • Shelfordella arabica (Bei Bienko, 1938)
  • Shelfordella lateralis (Walker, 1868)
  • Shelfordella monochroma (Walker, 1871)

Additional images

  • Shelfordella lateralis ootheca
    Shelfordella lateralis ootheca

References

  1. ^ Cockroach Species File (retrieved 28 March 2024)
Taxon identifiers
Shelfordella
  • Wikidata: Q7493611
  • Wikispecies: Shelfordella (Adelung)
  • BOLD: 505577
  • BugGuide: 601745
  • CoL: 8MV5K
  • Cockroach Species File (old): 1179021
  • EoL: 63385
  • GBIF: 1999785
  • iNaturalist: 249673
  • NCBI: 36980
  • Open Tree of Life: 448465


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