Plectoptera

Short description: Genus of cockroaches

Plectoptera

Plectoptera pulicaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Blattodea
Family:  | Ectobiidae
Subfamily:  | Pseudophyllodromiinae
Genus:  | Plectoptera
Saussure, 1864

Plectoptera is a genus of American cockroaches in the family Ectobiidae and tribe Plectopterini. There are at least 2 described species in Plectoptera.[1][2][3]

## Species

* Plectoptera picta Saussure & Zehntner, 1893 (pictured beetle cockroach)
* Plectoptera poeyi (Saussure, 1862) (Florida beetle roach)

## References

1. ↑ "Plectoptera Genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/454746. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
2. ↑ "Plectoptera Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=666669. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
3. ↑ "Catalog and atlas of the cockroaches (Dictyoptera) of North America north of Mexico", Atkinson T.H., Koehler P.G., Patterson R.S. 1991. Misc. Publ. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 78: 1-86.

* Gutiérrez, Esteban (1995). "Annotated checklist of Cuban cockroaches". Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. 121, 65-84.
* Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1997). "Blattodea". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America: vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders, 31-39.

## Further reading

* Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.

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