Pycnoscelus is a genus of cockroaches in the family Blaberidae. Species in the genus Pycnoscelus are recorded from India, China and SE Asia.

Species: The Cockroach species file records for genus Pycnoscelus:

# Pycnoscelus aurantius Hanitsch, 1935
# Pycnoscelus confertus (Walker, 1869)
# Pycnoscelus femapterus Roth, 1998
# Pycnoscelus gorochovi Anisyutkin, 2002
# Pycnoscelus indicus (Fabricius, 1775)
# Pycnoscelus janetscheki Bey-Bienko, 1968
# Pycnoscelus micropterus Hanitsch, 1931
# Pycnoscelus niger (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
# Pycnoscelus rothi Anisyutkin, 2002
# Pycnoscelus rufus Bey-Bienko, 1950
# Pycnoscelus schwendingeri Anisyutkin, 2018
# Pycnoscelus semivitreus Princis, 1967
# Pycnoscelus striatus (Kirby, 1903)
# Pycnoscelus surinamensis (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (Surinam cockroach)
# Pycnoscelus tenebriger (Walker, 1868)
# Pycnoscelus vietnamensis Anisyutkin, 2002