Bibliography for Blattoidae

• Adelung, N. 1910. Ueber einige bemerkenswerte Orthopteren aus dem palaearktischen Asien. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 39: 328–358
• Angas, G.F. 1847. South Australia Illustrated. London : Thomas McLean 60 pls, in colour, with descriptive text.
• Asahina, S. 1980. Taxonomic notes on non-domiciliary Periplaneta species from the Ryukyus, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand. Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology 31: 103-115
• Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1839. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret i-xviii, 1-776, Atlas pls 1-14. [dated 1838]
• Brancsik, C. 1897. Series Orthopterorum novorum. Jahresheft Naturwissenscheftlichen Vereins des Trencsiner Comitat 19-20: 52-85, tabs i-ii [dated 1897]
• Bruijning, C.F.A. 1948. Studies on Malayan Blattidae. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 29: 1-174
• Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls.
• Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1893. Révision du système des Orthoptères et description des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2a 13: 1-230 [published September]
• Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 2(2) 1050 pp.
• Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289
• Deng, W., Luo, X., Ho, S.Y.W., Liao, S., Wang, Z. & Che, Y. 2022. Inclusion of rare taxa from Blattidae and Anaplectidae improves phylogenetic resolution in the cockroach superfamily Blattoidea. Systematic Entomology 48: 23–39
• Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5
• Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April]
• Fischer, J.E. 1853. Orthoptera Europaea. Lipsiae : Engelmann xx 454 pp., 18 pls.
• Fischer von Waldheim, G. 1833. Conspectus orthopterorum rossicorum. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 6: 341-390
• Fischer von Waldheim, G. 1846. Orthoptères de Russie. Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 8: 1-441
• Green, A. 1973. A large native cockroach (Polyzosteria oculata). Tasmanian Naturalist Bulletin 32: 1-2
• Hanitsch, R. 1930. Blattidae collected by H.R.H. Prince Leopold of Belgium during a tour in the east. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70: 254-262
• Hanitsch, R. 1934. On a collection of Blattids, chiefly from Java and Northern Australia, made by Professor Ed. Handschin. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 41: 111-130
• Harz, K. & Kaltenbach, A. 1976. Die orthoptera Europas. Series Entomologica 12: 1-434
• Henry, S.C., Cameron, S.L., Smolenski, A. & McQuillan, P. 2021. Polyzosteria cockroaches in Tasmania (Blattodea: Blattidae: Polyzosteriinae) represent a new, endemic species, with allopatric alpine and coastal sub-populations. Zootaxa 4926(3): 384-400
• Jacobson, G. 1924. Annotationes synonymicae et systematicae de Coleopteris. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 18: 237-244
• Johns, P.M. 1966. The cockroaches of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 8: 93-136
• Kirby, W.F. 1903. Notes on Blattidae etc., with descriptions of new genera and species in the collection of the British Museum, South Kensington. No. III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 373-381
• Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 501 pp.
• Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Orthoptera, Euplexoptera, Cursoria, et Gressoria (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae). London : Longmans & Co. Vol. 1 x 501 pp.
• Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 562 pp.
• Krauss, H.A. 1903. Orthopteren aus Australien und den Malayischen Archipel, gesammelt von Professor Dr Richard Semon. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 8: 745-755
• Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature]
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp.
• Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). I. General remarks and revision of the genus Polyzosteria Burmeister. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 841-882
• Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). II. Revision of the genus Euzosteria Shelford. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 883-902
• Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). III. Revision of the genera Zonioploca Stål and Eppertia Shaw. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 903-927
• Mackerras, M.J. 1966. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). IV. Megazosteria, gen. nov., and revision of the genus Desmozosteria Shelford. Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 305-334
• Mackerras, M.J. 1966. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). V. Revision of the genera Anamesia Tepper and Pseudolampra Tepper. Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 335-363
• Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VI. Revision of the genus Cosmozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 593-618
• Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VII. The Platyzosteria group: general remarks and revision of the subgenera Platyzosteria Brunner and Leptozosteria Tepper. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1207-1298
• Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). IX. Revision of Polyzosteriinae tribe Methanini, Tryonicinae, and Blattinae. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 511-575
• Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331
• Mackerras, M.J. 1970. Blattodea. pp. 262-274 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Carlton : Melbourne University Press 1029 pp.
• Marshall, J.A. 1983. The orthopteroid insects described by Linnaeus, with notes on the Linnaean collection. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 78: 375-396
• McKittrick, F.A. & Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Phyletic relationships within the Blattidae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 58: 224-330
• Pope, P. 1953. Studies of the life histories of some Queensland Blattidae (Orthoptera). Part 1. The domestic species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 63: 23-46
• Pope, P. 1953. Studies of the life histories of some Queensland Blattidae (Orthoptera). Part 2. Some native species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 63: 47-59
• Princis, K. 1951. Neue und wenig Bekannte Blattarien ans dem Zoologischen Museum, Kopenhagen. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 12: 5-72
• Princis, K. 1954. Report from Professor T. Gislén's Expedition to Australia in 1951–1952. 10. Australian Blattariae. Acta Universitatis Lundensis 50: 1-49
• Princis, K. 1957. Revision der Walker'schen und Kirby'schen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 22: 87-96, 97-116
• Princis, K. 1965. Kleine beiträge zur kenntnis der Blattarien und ihrer verbreitung. VIII (Orthoptera). Environmental Entomology 41: 135-156
• Princis, K. 1966. Kleine beiträge zur kenntnis der Blattarien und ihrer verbreitung. IX. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 31: 43-60
• Princis, K. 1966. Pars 8: Blattariae: Blattoidea: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. pp. 402-614 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : Dr. W. Junk.
• Princis, K. 1971. Pars 14: Blattariae: Subordo Epilamproidea, Fam. Ectobiidae. pp. 1041-1224 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : Dr. W. Junk.
• Rentz, D.C.F. 1988. The Orthopteroid insects of Norfolk Island, with descriptions and records of some related species from Lord Howe, Island, South Pacific. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 1013-1077
• Rentz, D.C.F. & Cameron, H.M. 1983. Catalogue of Australian Cockroaches. CSIRO Australia. Division of Entomology Technical Paper 21: 1-37
• Richards, A.M. 1967. Cockroaches (Blattodea) from Australian Caves. Helictite, Journal of Australasian Cave Research 5(2): 35-44
• Richards, A.M. 1971. An ecological study of the cavernicolous fauna of the Nullarbor Plain Southern Australia. Journal of Zoology, London 164: 1-60
• Roach, A.M.E. & Rentz, D.C.F. 1998. Blattodea. pp. 21-162 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 xiii 464 pp.
• Roach, A.M.E. in Roach, A.M.E. & Rentz, D.C.F. 1998. Blattodea. 21-162, 400 (App. III), 407-426 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 xiii 464 pp.
• Roth, L.M. 1987. The genus Tryonicus Shaw from Australia and New Caledonia (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blattellidae: Tryonicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25: 151-167
• Roth, L.M. 1990. A revision of the Australian Parcoblattini (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Blattellinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 531-596
• Roth, L.M. 1991. Blattodea. pp. 320-329 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp.
• Roth, L.M. 1993. The genus Macrocerca Hanitsch with descriptions of new species (Blattaria, Blattidae: Macrocercinae, subfam. n.). Entomologica Scandinavica 24: 343-360
• Roth, L.M. 1994. New Queensland cockroaches of Macrocerca Hanitsch and Periplaneta Burmeister (Blattidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35: 225-233
• Roth, L.M. 1995. New species and records of cockroaches from Western Australia (Blattaria). Records of the Western Australian Museum 17: 153-161
• Roth, L.M. 1999. New cockroach species, redescriptions, and records, mostly from Australia, and a description of Metanocticola gen. nov., sp. nov., from Christmas Island (Blattaria). Records of the Western Australian Museum 19: 327-364
• Roth, L.M. 2003. Systematics and phylogeny of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria). Oriental Insects 37: 1-186
• Saussure, H. de 1863. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. Ier Fascicule, Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 17: 129-170
• Saussure, H. de 1864. Blattarum novarum species aliquot. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 16: 305-326
• Saussure, H. de 1864. Orthoptères de l'Amerique Moyenne. Geneva : publisher unknown 279 pp.
• Saussure, H. de 1869. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. IIme fascicule Blattides et Phasmides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 20: 227-326
• Saussure, H. de 1873. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. IVme fascicule, Mantides et Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 23: 1-164
• Schmeltz, J.D.E & Pöhl, C.A. (eds) 1877. Insecta. Ordo I. Orthoptera. pp. in Catalog VI der zum Verkauf stehenden Doubletten aus den Naturhistorischen Expeditionen der Herren Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn in Hamburg. Hamburg : L. Friedrichsen & Co. 18-23 pp.
• Serville, J.G.A. 1839. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Suite à Buffon. Orthoptères. Paris : Roret 776 pp.
• Shaw, A.E. 1914. Australian Blattidae. Part I. Notes and preliminary descriptions of new species. Victorian Naturalist 31: 103-108
• Shaw, A.E. 1918. Australian Blattidae. With descriptions of eleven new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 151-167
• Shaw, A.E. 1922. Descriptions of new Australasian blattids with a note on the blattid coxa. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47: 223-231
• Shaw, A.E. 1925. New genera and species (mostly Australasian) of Blattidae, with notes and some remarks on Tepper's types. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 50: 171-213
• Shelford, R.W.C. 1909. Blattidae. pp. 129-142 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2(9).
• Shelford, R.W.C. 1909. Studies of the Blattidae. X. A revision of the old-world Blattinae belonging to the Polyzosteria group. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1909(2): 253-327
• Shelford, R.W.C. 1910. Orthoptera. Fam. Blattidae, subfam. Epilamprinae. Genera Insectorum 101: 1-21
• Shelford, R.W.C. 1911. Descriptions of some new species of Blattidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(8): 1-13
• Shelford, R.W.C. 1911. The latest in nomenclature. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 23: 241-242
• Stål, C. 1874. Recherches sur le système des Blattaires. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 2: 3-18
• Stål, C. 1877. Orthoptera nova ex Insulis Philippinis descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 34: 33-58
• Stoll, C. 1813. Natuurlijke en naar het leven nauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen der Spoken, Wandelente Bladen, Zabel-springhanen, Krekels, Trekspringhanen en Kakkerlakken, &c.—Représentation ... des Spectres ou Phasmes, des Mantes ... et des Blattes qui se trouvent dans les quatre parties du monde, &c. Amsterdam. [1788–1813 two volumes in one]
• Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June]
• Tepper, J.G.O. 1894. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Supplementary and additional descriptions and notes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 165-189
• Tepper, J.G.O. 1895. Descriptions of new or little known species of Blattariae. Gryllacridae and Stenopelmatidae collected at Lake Callabonna, S.A. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 19: 19-24
• Tepper, J.G.O. 1895. Notes on Victorian and other Blattariae and descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 19: 146-166
• Tepper, J.G.O. 1896. Orthoptera. pp. 357-379 in Spencer, B. (ed.). Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Part 2. Zoology. Melbourne : Melville, Mullens & Slade.
• Tepper, J.G.O. 1905. Insects collected in the north-western region of South Australia proper by H. Basedow; with descriptions of new species of mantidae and phasmidae. No. 2. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 29: 237-245
• Uvarov, B.P. 1940. Eleven new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6(11): 377-380
• Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp.
• Walker, F. 1869. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria and Supplement to the Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. London : British Museum (Natural History) 224 pp.
• Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Supplement to the Catalogue of Blattariae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 40 pp.
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