#American_cockroach__Periplaneta_americana large reddish brown free-flying cockroach originally from southern United States but now widely distributed
supertype: #cockroach__roach any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests
member of: #genus_Periplaneta__Periplaneta cosmopolitan genus of large cockroaches
member of: #family_Blattidae__Blattidae domestic cockroaches
member of: #suborder_Blattodea__Blattodea__Blattaria__suborder_Blattaria cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order
member of: #order_Dictyoptera__Dictyoptera in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera
member of: #class_Insecta__Insecta__Hexapoda__class_Hexapoda insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
member of: #phylum_Arthropoda__Arthropoda jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
member of: #kingdom_Animalia__Animalia__animal_kingdom taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals
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