Periplaneta americana (American Cockroach, Ship Cockroach) is a species of Blattoidea in the family blattid cockroaches. They are native to Ethiopia and the Palearctic. They are nocturnal.
Definition: organs in insects that are involved in the perception of sound; just below the knee in the tibia of all legs in most insects. Reception is performed by aggregations of scolopidia, the unit mechanoreceptor in invertebrates.
Definition: The institution that holds a type specimen for a given species. The recommended best practice is to use the identifier in a collections registry such as the Biodiversity Collections Index (http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/).
