Plectoptera
Sign in to savePlectoptera is a genus of American cockroaches in the family Ectobiidae and tribe Plectopterini. There are at least 2 described species in Plectoptera.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- Family
- Ectobiidae
- Collections
- INHS, GMNH, TAMU, USNM
- Recorded in
- Ecuador, United States, Dominican Republic
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Blattellidae
- Image
- Plectoptera pulicaria.jpg
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- taxon name
- Plectoptera
- taxon rank
- genus
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Plectoptera is a genus of American cockroaches in the family Ectobiidae and tribe Plectopterini. There are at least 2 described species in Plectoptera.
==Species== Plectoptera picta Saussure & Zehntner, 1893 (pictured beetle cockroach) Plectoptera poeyi (Saussure, 1862) (Florida beetle roach)
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