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Original Articles

Systematics and phylogeny of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria)

Louis M. Roth Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA; 81 Brush Hill Road, P.O. Box 540, MA, 01770, USA E-mail: [email protected]View further author information
Pages 1-186 | Published online: 05 Jan 2012

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  • Roth , L.M. 1987f . The genus Episymploce Bey-Bienko. VI. Species from Taiwan and the Japanese Islands (Dictyoptera: Blattaria, Blattellidae) . Ent. Scand. , 18 : 143 – 153 .
  • Roth , L.M. 1987g . The genus Symploce Hebard. VII. African species (continued). (Dictyoptera: Blattaria, Blattellidae) . Ent. Scand. , 17 : 433 – 454 .
  • Roth , L.M. 1987h . The genus Symploce Hebard. VIII. Species from Taiwan and the Japanese Islands. (Dictyoptera: Blattaria, Blattellidae) . Ent. Scand. , 18 : 155 – 163 .
  • Roth , L.M. 1988 . Some cavernicolous and epigean cockroaches with six new species, and a discussion of the Nocticolidae (Dictyoptera: Blattaria) . Rev. Suisse Zool. , 95 : 297 – 321 .
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  • Roth , L.M. 1989c . Miriamrothschildia, a new cockroach genus from the Seychelles Islands (Dictyoptera, Blattaria: Blattellidae) . Ent. Scand. , 20 : 65 – 74 .
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  • Roth , L.M. 1995d . New species of Blattella and Neoloboptera from India and Burma (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blattellidae) . Oriental Ins. , 29 : 23 – 31 .
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  • Roth , L.M. 1995g . Description of a new species of Ctenoneura Hanitsch from Sabah (Blattaria, Polyphagidae) . Tijd. Ent. , 138 : 117 – 119 .
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  • Roth , L.M. 1996d . New species of Tomeisneria Roth, Squamoptera Bruijning, and Dethieridris, gen. nov. (Blattaria: Blattellinae and Pseudophyllodromiinae) . Oriental Ins. , 30 : 181 – 192 .
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  • Roth , L.M. 1997c . The cockroach genera Shelfordina Hebard, Delosia Bolivar, and Duryodina Kirby (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Pseudophyllodromiinae) . Oriental Ins. , 31 : 209 – 227 .
  • Roth , L.M. 1997d . The cockroach genera Pseudothyrsocera Shelford, Haplosymploce Hanitsch, and Episymploce Bey-Bienko (Blattaria: Blattellidae, Blattellinae) . Tijd. Ent. , 140 : 67 – 110 .
  • Roth , L.M. 1997e . A new combination, and new records of species of Blattella Caudell (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Blattellinae) . Oriental Insects , 31 : 229 – 239 .
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  • Roth , L.M. 1998c . The cockroach genera Chorisoneura Brunner, Sorineuchora Caudell, Chorisoneurodes Princis, and Chorisoserrata, gen. nov. (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Pseudophyllodromiinae . Oriental Ins. , 32 : 1 – 33 .
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