Shelfordella lateralis
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Known to dysentery (Zmeev 1940).
Competes with Blatta orientalis for shelter and it may be replacing the latter species (Kim and Rust 2013; Memona et al. 2017)
Zmeev GI (1940) Certain points in the epidemiology of dysentery and its endemic foci in Central Asia connected with the cockroach Shelfordella tartara Sauss. In: Second conference on parasitological problems, Leningrad. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, p. 35. [in Russian, from Review of Applied Entomology, 1946, 34, p. 110.]
Kim T, Rust MK (2013) Life history and biology of the invasive Turkestan cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattidae). Journal of Economic Entomology106 (6): 2428-2432. https://doi.org/10.1603/ec13052
Memona H, Manzoor F, Saffora R (2017) Species diversity and distributional pattern of cockroaches in Lahore, Pakistan. Journal of Arthropod Borne Diseases 11(2): 249-259. http://jad.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jad/article/view/559
Davranoglou LR, Hadjiconstantis M, Mann DJ (2020) First record of the Turkestan cockroach (Shelfordella lateralis) from Cyprus and Turkey (Dictyoptera: Blattidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50(1): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3635796