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Pycnoscelus  Scudder, 1862
Taxonomic Serial No.: 102425

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderPolyneoptera   
                               OrderBlattodea Latreille, 1810 – cockroaches, termites  
                                  SuperfamilyBlaberoidea Saussure, 1864  
                                     FamilyBlaberidae Saussure, 1864 – giant cockroaches  
                                        SubfamilyPycnoscelinae McKittrick, 1964  
                                           GenusPycnoscelus Scudder, 1862  
    Direct Children:  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus aurantius Hanitsch, 1935  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus confertus (Walker, 1869)  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus femapterus Roth, 1998  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus gorochovi Anisyutkin, 2002  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus indicus (Fabricius, 1775)  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus janetscheki Bey-Bienko, 1968  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus micropterus Hanitsch, 1931  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus niger (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus puteus Wang and Che in Wang et al., 2025  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus rothi Anisyutkin, 2002  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus rufus Bey-Bienko, 1950  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus schwendingeri Anisyutkin, 2018  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus semivitreus Princis, 1967  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus striatus (Kirby, 1903)  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus surinamensis (Linnaeus, 1758) – Surinam cockroach 
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus tenebriger (Walker, 1868)  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus undulatus Wang and Che in Wang et al., 2025  
                                              SpeciesPycnoscelus vietnamensis Anisyutkin, 2002  
       

 References
       
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  Source: Cockroach Species File, Database (version Undefined)  
  Acquired: 2024   
  Notes: https://cockroach.speciesfile.org   
  Reference for: Pycnoscelus   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Pycnoscelus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Gutiérrez, Esteban   
  Publication Date: 1995   
  Article/Chapter Title: Annotated checklist of Cuban cockroaches   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. 121, no. 1/2   
  Page(s): 65-84   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0002-8320   
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  Reference for: Pycnoscelus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds.   
  Publication Date: 1997   
  Article/Chapter Title: Blattodea   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America: vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders   
  Page(s): 31-39   
  Publisher: Entomological Information Services   
  Publication Place: Rockville, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-889002-04-6   
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  Reference for: Pycnoscelus   
       

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