Parcoblatta caudelli
| Parcoblatta caudelli | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Blattellidae[1] |
| Genus: | Parcoblatta |
| Species: | P. caudelli |
| Binomial name | |
| Parcoblatta caudelli Hebard, 1917 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Parcoblatta caudelli, Caudell's wood cockroach or Caudell's wood roach, is a species of cockroach native to the United States.[1][3]
The male of the species has a pale clay-yellow head, underside, and legs.[4] The back of its abdomen, pronotum disc, occiput (X), and a transverse bar in the middle of its face are a brownish-yellow.[4] Tegmina are fully developed, and are slightly wider than the pronotum.[4] It has long, thin cerci.[4] While the species is the smallest of the pale brown species of the genus Parcoblatta, its abdomen is modified like Parcoblatta lata, the largest of the genus.[4]
Fred A. Lawson wrote in 1967 that the female is fully winged and capable of flight, a trait he stated was unique among the Parcoblatta species in the United States,[5] while a 2003 study involving P. caudelli caught in North Carolina characterized the female as flightless.[6]
| Male[4] | Female[4] | |
|---|---|---|
| Body length | 12.2–16.0 mm (0.48–0.63 in) | 10.7–12.3 mm (0.42–0.48 in) |
| Pronotum length | 2.9–3.4 mm (0.11–0.13 in) | 3.2–3.6 mm (0.13–0.14 in) |
| Pronotum width | 3.9–4.7 mm (0.15–0.19 in) | 4.1 mm (0.16 in) |
| Tegmina length | 11.8–16.0 mm (0.46–0.63 in) | 11.4–11.8 mm (0.45–0.46 in) |
| Tegmina width | 3.9–5.2 mm (0.15–0.20 in) | 3.8–4.0 mm (0.15–0.16 in) |
Distribution
The distribution of the species is the United States, in Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Indiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia.[3] The species is considered adventive, but not established, in Ontario, Canada.[7]
Habitat
The species is common in forested areas,[6] and one researcher collected specimens from an old sawdust pile, at a former sawmill on the University of Tennessee Farm.[5]
References
- 1 2 "ITIS Standard Report Page: Parcoblatta caudelli". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
- ↑ "Synonyms of Caudell's wood cockroach (Parcoblatta caudelli )". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
- 1 2 Beccaloni, GW (2007). "species Parcoblatta caudelli Hebard, 1917". Blattodea Species File Online. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Blatchley, Willis Stanley (1920). Orthoptera of northeastern America: with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. The Nature Publishing Company. pp. 89–90.
- 1 2 Lawson, Fred A. (1967). "Ecological and collecting notes on eight species of Parcoblatta (Orthoptera: Blattidae) and certain other cockroaches". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 40 (3): 267–269. (registration required (help)).
- 1 2 Gemeno, César; Snook, Kirsten; Benda, Nicole; Schal, Coby (2003). "Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for volatile sex pheromones in Parcoblatta wood cockroaches" (PDF). Journal of Chemical Ecology. 29 (1): 37–54. doi:10.1023/A:1021920428624. ISSN 0098-0331.
...we hypothesized that female P. lata and P. caudelli, which are flightless, produce long-range volatile sex pheromones...
- ↑ 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.