Griffiniella is one of several cockroach genera in the subfamily Oxyhaloinae (in the Blaberidae, the giant cockroach or ovoviviparous cockroach family).[1] The genus was described by Heinrich Hugo Karny in 1908, and named by him in honour of the prolific author Dr. Achille Griffini of the Royal Technical Institute of Genoa.[2][3][4]
^Holland, W. J., ed. (1915). Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Vol. IX. Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute. p. 400.
^Poulton, Edward B., ed. (1908). "31: Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1907". The Hope Reports, volume VI: 1906-1908. Oxford: Private printing by printer to the University of Oxford. pp. 64 (within chapter).
