| Periplaneta | |
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| Periplaneta americana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Blattidae |
| Subfamily: | Blattinae |
| Genus: | Periplaneta Burmeister, 1838 |
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Periplaneta is a genus of cockroaches[1][2] containing some of the well-known pest species with cosmopolitan distributions, such as:
- Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758) – American cockroach
- Periplaneta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775) – Australian cockroach
- Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister, 1838 – Brown cockroach
- Periplaneta fuliginosa (Serville, 1839) – Smokybrown cockroach
- Periplaneta japonica Karny, 1908 – Japanese cockroach
- Periplaneta lateralis Walker, 1868 - the Turkestan cockroach
- ^ Schafer, Rollie; Sanchez, Thomas V. (June 1976). "The nature and development of sex attractant specificity in cockroaches of the genusPeriplaneta. I. Sexual dimorphism in the distribution of antennal sense organs in five species". Journal of Morphology. 149 (2): 139–157. doi:10.1002/jmor.1051490202. hdl:2027.42/50261. ISSN 0362-2525. PMID 933170. S2CID 3164885.
- ^ Lucañas, Cristian C. (2023-01-18). "Revisions on the genus Periplaneta Burmeister, 1838 (Blattodea: Blattidae: Blattinae) part 1: two new genera from the Philippines and Borneo". Oriental Insects: 1–16. doi:10.1080/00305316.2022.2164804. ISSN 0030-5316. S2CID 256077346.