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Esteban Gutiérrez

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Six new species of the cockroach genus Eurycotis Stål are described from Dominican Republic (Hispaniola Island). Differential diagnoses, illustrations and comments are given for the new taxa, as well as for the two previously known Hispaniolan species.

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Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Blattidae, Polyzosteriinae, cockroach, new species, Eurycotis, Hispaniola, Dominican Republic

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Gutiérrez, E. (2013). The cockroach genus Eurycotis (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blattidae: Polyzosteriinae). 1. Species from Hispaniola. First Part: six new species. Novitates Caribaea, (6), 16–35. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i6.104

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