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The Allacta Kalakkadensis species of cockroach found in Kalakkad-Mudanthurai region. A new cockroach species has been discovered by scientists of the Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, at the Western Ghats, a region with high species richness, and high percent endemicity. India is home to 182 cockroach species. With the new finding there 56 species in Tamil Nadu.