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The following list provide the cockroaches currently identified in Sri Lanka. An exclusive update and taxonomic research on cockroaches in Sri Lanka has been not under taken so far by the scientific community. With records and few earlier studies, they have found that 66 species of cockroaches can be
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Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions of the world. There are about 2 million species of arthropods found in the world, and counting.
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Anaplecta, Anaplectella, Anaplectoidea, and Malaccina Blattaria, Blattellidae: Anaplectinae and Blattellinae)".
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765:- Household cockroaches
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821:Pelmatosilpha princisi
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976:Anaplectella maculata
906:Anaplecta erythronota
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814:Periplaneta ceylonica
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913:Anaplecta galathea
878:- Wood cockroaches
867:Therea petiveriana
860:Holocompsa debilis
846:- Sand cockroaches
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538:Cockroaches
415:Authorities
389:Mirijjawila
303:Echinoderms
188:Cockroaches
153:Butterflies
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1387:Categories
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1141:References
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844:Corydiidae
619:Blaberidae
523:Arthropoda
462:Ecoregions
394:Peradeniya
278:Hard ticks
268:Tarantulas
173:Mosquitoes
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