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Definition of Genus periplaneta
1. Noun. Cosmopolitan genus of large cockroaches.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Blattidae, Family Blattidae
Member holonyms: American Cockroach, Periplaneta Americana, Australian Cockroach, Periplaneta Australasiae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Periplaneta
Literary usage of Genus periplaneta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"... less of a calamity than to sink the more generally known genus Periplaneta.
2The earliest reference for this synonymy known to me is 1865, Brunner, ..."
2. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1916)
"... for its relatively large size and unusual wing venation, which resembles much
more closely the type found in the genus Periplaneta, of the Subfamily ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1893)
"The italicized parts of the description indicate that the species scarcely belongs
to this genus. PERIPLANETA MARGINALIS ..."
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