Parcoblatta virginica
| Parcoblatta virginica | |
|---|---|
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| Adult male P. virginica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropod |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Blattellidae[1] |
| Subfamily: | Blattellinae |
| Genus: | Parcoblatta |
| Species: | P. virginica |
| Binomial name | |
| Parcoblatta virginica (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) | |
| Synonyms | |
Parcoblatta virginica, the Virginia wood cockroach,[3] is a small cockroach species of the genus Parcoblatta, measuring about a centimeter long as an adult.
Description
Adult males of this species like adult males of several other species of Parcoblatta are full winged and orangish in color. Adult females are brachypterous and can be from rusty brown to almost black in color. Nymphs can be brown to black in color. Adults and older nymphs usually have a blackish or dark stained head.
| Male[4] | Female[4] | |
|---|---|---|
| Body length | 11.5–15.4 mm (0.45–0.61 in) | 10.3–12.5 mm (0.41–0.49 in) |
| Pronotum length | 2.7–3.6 mm (0.11–0.14 in) | 3.2–3.8 mm (0.13–0.15 in) |
| Pronotum width | 3.4–4.4 mm (0.13–0.17 in) | 4.1–4.9 mm (0.16–0.19 in) |
| Tegmina length | 12.8–16.7 mm (0.50–0.66 in) | 3.3–4.9 mm (0.13–0.19 in) |
| Tegmina width | 4.3–5.7 mm (0.17–0.22 in) | 2.7–3.3 mm (0.11–0.13 in) |
Distribution
The distribution of the species is limited to Ontario, Canada[5] and the eastern United States, including Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.[6]
Additional Images
Adult female P. virginica from North Carolina
References
- ↑ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Parcoblatta virginica". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
- 1 2 "Synonyms of Virginia wood cockroach (Parcoblatta virginica)". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
- ↑ "Common Names for Virginia Wood Cockroach (Parcoblatta virginica)". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
- 1 2 Blatchley, Willis Stanley (1920). Orthoptera of northeastern America: with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. The Nature Publishing Company. pp. 82–83.
- ↑ Vickery, VR; Scudder, GGE (1987). "The Canadian orthopteroid insects summarized and updated, including a tabular check-list and ecological notes". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 118: 25–46. ISSN 0071-0768.
- ↑ Atkinson, Thomas H.; Koehler, Philip G.; Patterson, Richard S. (1990). "Annotated checklist of cockroaches of Florida (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blattidae, Polyphagidae, Blattellidae, Blaberidae)" (PDF). Florida Entomologist. 73 (2): 318.
External links
- Drawings from a 1917 article by Morgan Hebard. Plate IV includes a dorsal views of a male and a female of P. virginica (figures 1 and 5), and views of body parts of the male (figure 2-4), with a key to the drawings on page 277.
- Black and white photograph of top view of P. virginica female with partly formed ootheca, from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.