Pycnoscelus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Blattodea

Familia: Blaberidae
Subfamilia: Pycnoscelinae
Genus: Pycnoscelus
Species: P. aurantia – P. conferta – P. femapterus – †P. gardneri – P. gorochovi – P. indicus – P. janetscheki – P. micropterus – P. nigra – P. rothi – P. semivitreus – P. striata – P. surinamensis – P. tenebrigera – P. vietnamensis
Name

Pycnoscelus Scudder, 1862: 421

Type species: Pycnoscelus obscurus Scudder, 1862; fixation: monotypy

References
Primary references

Scudder, S.H. 1862. Materials for a monograph of the North American Orthoptera. Boston Journal of Natural History 7: 409–480. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1920. XXXVI.—Fossil arthropods in the British Museum.—I The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9(5): 273-279 DOI: 10.1080/00222932008632376 Online. Reference page.

Links

Pycnoscelus in the Blattodea Species File database, accessed on 10/10/2013.
Pycnoscelus Taxon details on Fauna Europaea

Pycnoscelus indicus from Ezhupunna, Alappuzha

Pycnoscelus is a genus of cockroaches in the family Blaberidae. There are about 15 described species in the genus Pycnoscelus.[1][2][3]
Species

These 15 species belong to the genus Pycnoscelus:

Pycnoscelus aurantia Hanitsch, 1935
Pycnoscelus conferta (Walker, 1869)
Pycnoscelus femapterus Roth, 1998
Pycnoscelus gorochovi Anisyutkin, 2002
Pycnoscelus indicus (Fabricius, 1775)
Pycnoscelus janetscheki Bey-Bienko, 1968
Pycnoscelus micropterus Hanitsch, 1931
Pycnoscelus nigra (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
Pycnoscelus rothi Anisyutkin, 2002
Pycnoscelus schwendingeri Anisyutkin, 2018
Pycnoscelus semivitreus Princis, 1967
Pycnoscelus striatus (Kirby, 1903)
Pycnoscelus surinamensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Surinam cockroach)
Pycnoscelus tenebrigera (Walker, 1868)
Pycnoscelus vietnamensis Anisyutkin, 2002

References

"Pycnoscelus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
"Pycnoscelus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
Beccaloni, G.W. (2019). "Cockroach species file online, Version 5.0". Retrieved 2019-07-02.