Despite its name, the Australian cockroach is a cosmopolitan species, and an introduced species in Australia.

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Australian cockroach (Periplaneta australasiae)

Periplaneta australasia (Australian Cockroach) This species is slightly smaller than the American with a pronounced yellow margin on the pronotum, it usually comes in on crops like bananas.

Egg cases glued to food packages or boxes, pallets etc. may play on important role in dispersal. australian cockroach The Australian cockroach (Periplaneta australasiae) is relatively large.

Unlike the related (and misnamed) Australian cockroach, this is an Australian native endemic, only recorded from the northern part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, as far north as the Cape York Peninsula.

Slaney, D.P. (2001) New species of Australian cockroaches in the genus Paratemnopteryx Saussure (Blattaria, Blattellidae, Blattellinae), and a discussion of some behavioural observations with respect to the evolution and ecology of cave life.