Griffiniella

Griffiniella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Family:	Blaberidae
Genus:	Griffiniella; Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865
Species
	(Saussure 1895); G. heterogamia Karny 1908; Princis 1965; (Shelford 1910)

Griffiniella is one of several cockroach genera in the family Blaberidae, the giant cockroach or ovoviviparous cockroach family.^[2] The genus was described by Heinrich Hugo Karny in 1908, and named by him in honor of the prolific author Dr. Achille Griffini of the Royal Technical Institute of Genoa.^[3]^[4]^[5]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Taxinomic Information for Griffiniella". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
^ "Common names for giant cockroaches (Blaberidae)". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
^ Karny, H. (1908). "Blattaeformia oothecaria". In Schultze, Leonhard (ed.). Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika: ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 mit Unterstützung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (in German). Jena, Germany: Verlag von Gustav Fischer. p. 383. Dedicatum hoc genus elegans Dom. Prof. Dr. A. Griffini, excellenti Orthopterorum et Oothecariorum omnium auctori.
^ Holland, W. J., ed. (1915). Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Vol. IX. Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute. p. 400.
^ Poulton, Edward B., ed. (1908). "31: Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1907". The Hope Reports, volume VI: 1906-1908. Oxford: Private printing by printer to the University of Oxford. pp. 64 (within chapter).

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[eol-classification-1] "Taxinomic Information for Griffiniella". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

[eol-common-2] "Common names for giant cockroaches (Blaberidae)". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

[karny1908-3] Karny, H. (1908). "Blattaeformia oothecaria". In Schultze, Leonhard (ed.). Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika: ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 mit Unterstützung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (in German). Jena, Germany: Verlag von Gustav Fischer. p. 383. Dedicatum hoc genus elegans Dom. Prof. Dr. A. Griffini, excellenti Orthopterorum et Oothecariorum omnium auctori.

[4] Holland, W. J., ed. (1915). Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Vol. IX. Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute. p. 400.

[5] Poulton, Edward B., ed. (1908). "31: Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1907". The Hope Reports, volume VI: 1906-1908. Oxford: Private printing by printer to the University of Oxford. pp. 64 (within chapter).

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