Dorylaea Explained

Dorylaea is a genus of South-East Asian cockroaches in the subfamily Blattinae erected by Carl Stål in 1877.^[1] 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.

Species

The Cockroach Species File^[2] lists:

1. Dorylaea andrewsi
2. Dorylaea archershee
3. Dorylaea atrocaput
4. Dorylaea brunneri - type species
5. Dorylaea bryanti
6. Dorylaea crassa
7. Dorylaea dacrydii
8. Dorylaea flavicincta
9. Dorylaea flavicollis
10. Dorylaea flavifrons
11. Dorylaea heinzei
12. Dorylaea hosei
13. Dorylaea magna
14. Dorylaea picea
15. Dorylaea prakkei
16. Dorylaea rhabdotops
17. Dorylaea robinsoni
18. Dorylaea rotundata
19. Dorylaea saundersi
20. Dorylaea semimarginalis
21. Dorylaea umbellifera
22. Dorylaea unicolor
23. Dorylaea vietnamica
24. Dorylaea zeylanica

• temporary name: Dorylaea orini

Notes and References

1. Stål C (1877) Orthoptera nova ex Insulis Philippinis descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vet. Akad. Förhandlingar. 34(10): 36.
2. http://cockroach.archive.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1178696 Cockroach Species File: genus Dorylaea Stål, 1877