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Darkling Cockroaches
Dorylaea
Dorylaea is a genus of South-East Asian cockroaches in the subfamily Blattinae erected by Carl Stål in 1877. Species are sometimes called "darkling cockroaches" and their known distribution is almost certainly incomplete: having been recorded from Vietnam then peninsular Malaysia, Sri Lanka and most of Malesia including Taiwan through to Australia and the West Pacific islands.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Dorylaea heinzei
speciesDorylaea heinzei
Dorylaea flavicincta
speciesDorylaea flavicincta
Dorylaea saundersi
speciesDorylaea saundersi
Dorylaea brunneri
speciesDorylaea brunneri
Dorylaea flavifrons
speciesDorylaea flavifrons
Dorylaea regina
speciesDorylaea regina
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 737172.