Plectoptera picta

Species of cockroach

Plectoptera picta

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Blattodea
Family:  | Ectobiidae
Genus:  | Plectoptera
Species:  |

P. picta

Binomial name
Plectoptera picta

Saussure & Zehntner, 1893

Plectoptera picta, the pictured beetle cockroach, is a species of cockroach in the family Ectobiidae.[1][2] It is found in Central America and North America.[2][3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Plectoptera picta Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
2. ^ a b "Plectoptera picta Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
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.

* Atkinson, Thomas H., Philip G. Koehler, and Richard S. Patterson (1991). "Catalog and Atlas of the Cockroaches of North America North of Mexico". Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America, no. 78, 1-85.
* 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[edit]

* 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.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q10633836
* BugGuide: 454747
* Cockroach Species File: 1177417
* EoL: 1073852
* EPPO: PLCTPI
* GBIF: 1996936
* iNaturalist: 311159
* IRMNG: 10237003
* ITIS: 666726

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