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• n  dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution

• oriental roach
• Asiatic cockroach
• blackbeetle
• Blatta orientalis

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• New Cockroach Species Replacing Oriental Roach in Southwest US
  From the garages of Southern California to the apartments of Philadelphia, oriental cockroaches have reared their heads wherever there is moisture and rubbish or leftover food. But at least in the southwestern United States, and perhaps soon in a town near you, a new species of the cockroach is replacing them: Turkestan cockroaches. Compared with the more familiar German, American and oriental ...
  Dec. 12, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News