Plectoptera
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Plectoptera is a genus of American cockroaches in the family Ectobiidae and tribe Plectopterini. There are at least 2 described species in Plectoptera.{{cite web|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/454746|title=Plectoptera Genus Information|website=BugGuide.net|accessdate=2018-02-01}}{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=666669|title=Plectoptera Report|website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|accessdate=2018-02-01}}"Catalog and atlas of the cockroaches (Dictyoptera) of North America north of Mexico", Atkinson T.H., Koehler P.G., Patterson R.S. 1991. Misc. Publ. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 78: 1-86.
Species
- Plectoptera picta Saussure & Zehntner, 1893 (pictured beetle cockroach)
- Plectoptera poeyi (Saussure, 1862) (Florida beetle roach)
References
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- Gutiérrez, Esteban (1995). "Annotated checklist of Cuban cockroaches". Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. 121, 65-84.
- Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1997). "Blattodea". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America: vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders, 31-39.
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Further reading
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- {{Cite book| author = Ross H. Arnett| date = 30 July 2000| title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico| publisher = CRC Press| isbn = 978-0-8493-0212-1}}
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