Polyzosteria

thumb|P. mitchelli

Species

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderBlattodea
FamilyBlattidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 145
With media: 7
Family: Blattidae
Collections: NMV, TMAG, INHS
Recorded in: Australia

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Blattidae
Image: Cockroach 8 cm long Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.jpg

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Commons category: Polyzosteria
taxon name: Polyzosteria
taxon rank: genus
taxon author citation: Burmeister, 1838

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thumb|P. mitchelli

Polyzosteria is a genus of around sixteen species of cockroaches in the Blattidae family native to Australia. Some of these insects are attractively marked, such as Polyzosteria mitchelli. The type species of the genus is the Botany Bay cockroach, Polyzosteria limbata.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polyzosteria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.