Griffiniella
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| Genus: | Griffiniella Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865
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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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