| life history and biology of the invasive turkestan cockroach (dictyoptera: blattidae). | the turkestan cockroach, blatta lateralis (walker), has become an important invasive species throughout the southwestern united states and has been reported in the southern united states. it is rapidly replacing the oriental cockroach, blatta orientalis (l.), in urban areas of the southwestern united states as the most important peri-domestic species. they typically inhabit in-ground containers such as water meter, irrigation, and electrical boxes, raises of concrete, cracks and crevices, and ho ... | 2013 | 24498744 |