Louis M. Roth

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Roth, L.M. 1977: A taxonomic revision of the Panesthiinae of the world I. The Panesthiinae of Australia (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Australian journal of zoology, supplementary series, (48) DOI: 10.1071/AJZS048Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1979: A taxonomic revision of the Panesthiinae of the world III. The genera Panesthia Serville and Miopanesthia Serville (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Australian journal of zoology, supplementary series, (74) DOI: 10.1071/AJZS074Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1987: The genus Tryonicus Shaw from Australia and New Caledonia (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blattidae: Tryonicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25(1): 151-167. BHL Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1989: The cockroach genus Margattea Shelford, with a new species from the Krakatau Islands, and redescriptions of several species from the Indo-Pacific region (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blattellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 91(2): 206–229. BHL Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1990: A revision of the Australian Parcoblattini (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Blattellinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28(2): 531-596. BHL Reference page.
Roth, L.M. 1990: Revisionary studies on Blattellidae (Blattaria) from the Indo-Australian region. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28(2): 597-663. BHL Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1991: The cockroach genera Beybienkoa, gen. nov., Escala Shelford, Eowilsonia, gen. nov., Hensaussurea Princis, Parasigmoidella Hanitsch and Robshelfordia Princis (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blattellidae). Invertebrate taxonomy 5(3): 553–716. DOI: 10.1071/IT9910553 . Reference page.

Peck, S.B. & Roth, L.M. 1992: Cockroaches of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, with descriptions of three new species (Insecta: Blattodea). Canadian Journal of Zoology 70(11): 2202–2217. DOI: 10.1139/z92-297 Reference page.
Roth, L.M. 1992: The Australian cockroach genus Laxta Walker (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Invertebrate taxonomy 6(2): 389-435. DOI: 10.1071/IT9920389 . Reference page.
Roth, L.M. 1992: The Australian cockroach genus Choristima Tepper (Blattaria, Blattellidae: Ectobiinae). Entomologica scandinavica 23(2): 121-151. DOI: 10.1163/187631292X00263 Reference page.
Roth, L.M. 1992: The cockroach genus Allacta Saussure & Zehntner (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Pseudophyllodromiinae). Entomologica scandinavica 23(4): 361-389. DOI: 10.1163/187631292X00173 Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1993: The genus Macrocerca Hanitsch with descriptions of new species (Blattaria, Blattidae: Macrocercinae, subfam. n.) Entomologica scandinavica 24(3): 343-360. DOI: 10.1163/187631293X00154 . Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1994: New Queensland cockroaches of Macrocerca Hanitsch and Periplaneta Burmeister (Blattidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35(1): 225-233. BHL Reference page.
Roth, L.M. & McGavin, G.C. 1994: Two new species of Nocticolidae (Dictyoptera: Blattaria) and a rediagnosis of the cavernicolous genus Spelaeoblatta Bolívar. Journal of natural history 28(6): 1319-1326. DOI: 10.1080/00222939400770671 Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1995: New species and records of cockroaches from Western Australia (Blattaria). Records of the Western Australian Museum 17: 153-161. PDF Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1996: The cockroach genera Anaplecta, Anaplectella, Anaplectoidea, and Malaccina Blattaria, Blattellidae: Anaplectinae and Blattellinae). Oriental insects 30: 301-372. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.1996.10434105 Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1997: Pseudobalta, a new Australian ovoviviparous cockroach genus (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blattellidae: Pseudophyllodromiinae). Australian journal of entomology 36(2): 101-108. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1997.tb01440.x Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1998: The cockroach genera Chorisoneura Brunner, Sorineuchora Caudell, Chorisoneurodes Princis and Chorisoserrata, gen. nov. (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Pseudophyllodromiinae). Oriental insects 32: 1-33. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.1998.10433763 Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 1999: New cockroach species, redescriptions, and records, mostly from Australia, and a description of Metanocticola gen. nov., sp. nov., from Christmas Island (Blattaria). Records of the Western Australian Museum 19(3): 327-364. PDF Reference page.
Roth, L.M. 1999: The genus Ellipsidion Saussure from New Guinea (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae: Pseudophyllodromiinae). Serangga 4(2): 245-283. [Not seen] Reference page.

Roth, L.M. 2000: The cockroaches (Blattaria) of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Oriental insects 34: 67-76. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2000.10417254 Reference page.
Roth, L.M. 2000: The Australian cockroach genus Johnrehnia Princis (Blattellidae: Blattellinae). Oriental insects 34: 83-192. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2000.10417256 Reference page.

Deans, A.R. & Roth, L.M. 2003: Nyctibora acaciana (Blattellidae: Nyctiborinae), a new species of cockroach from central America that oviposits on ant-acacias. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 129(2): 267–283. JSTOR Reference page.
Roth, L.M. 2003. Systematics and phylogeny of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria). Oriental Insects 37(1): 1–186. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2003.10417344 . Reference page.
Roth, L.M. 2003: Lamproglandifera flavoglandis, n. gen., n. sp., from Brazil is described (Blattidae: Lamproblattinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 129(2): 285-293. JSTOR Reference page.