Nauphoeta | |
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Adult alate female (left) and male (right), dorsal perspective | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Blattodea |
Family: | Blaberidae |
Subfamily: | Oxyhaloinae |
Tribe: | Nauphoetini |
Genus: | Nauphoeta Burmeister, 1838[1] |
Species: | N. cinerea
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Binomial name | |
Nauphoeta cinerea (Olivier, 1789)
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Native (NE Africa) and introduced (elsewhere) distribution | |
Synonyms | |
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Nauphoeta cinerea, the speckled cockroach, lobster cockroach, or (small) cinereous cockroach, is a species of cockroach in the family Blaberidae. It is the sole species in the genus Nauphoeta.[2]