Hisserdude Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Based on the description of the species, it appears that wing shade is the only difference between species. Perhaps they are all the same species, and wing color is the equivalent of hair color in humans, and should not have been enough to warrant itself a different species in the first place. A genital dissection would be more reliable in determining if it should be classified as its own species. For being a science, taxonomy is highly subject to opinion. Yeah, this all seems fishy, I think there may not even be a T.Bernhardti. Guess we all have T.petiveriana then. And on top of everything, it looks like we are not gaining a new Therea species. Bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Just as a heads up to you all, I've been doing some following up with whoever had mentioned it to me and they don't really even know where they heard it from. So either someone is holding the species extremely close to the vest to try to not let anyone know, or it's some random rumor someone made up that just started making the rounds. All things considered (especially since the people that told me aren't huge roach people but love Therea), I'd be willing to bet a whole lot of roaches it's the second. Also Orin I have a male T. petiveriana that looks very much like yours. Lots and lots of white and not many spots. I'll try to get a pic posted later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Seems that there's a bit of confusion about the T. bernhardti and T. petiveriana so here's the description of the species. http://freeforumzone...px?idd=10038747 According to the key, T. bernhardti has short "black" hind wings, and if I remember correctly I've seen a comment on facebook stating that petiveriana has yellow hind wings that are significantly longer than bernhardti. What WE HAVE in culture is T. bernhardti if the key is truly valid. The Therea sp. that Jorg had was believed to be true petiveriana, but apparently his culture died out before the ID was determined Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Seems that there's a bit of confusion about the T. bernhardti and T. petiveriana so here's the description of the species. http://freeforumzone...px?idd=10038747 According to the key, T. bernhardti has short "black" hind wings, and if I remember correctly I've seen a comment on facebook stating that petiveriana has yellow hind wings that are significantly longer than bernhardti. What WE HAVE in culture is T. bernhardti if the key is truly valid. The Therea sp. that Jorg had was believed to be true petiveriana, but apparently his culture died out before the ID was determined Yeah, I put a link to the description in an earlier post. Did you see Orin's post where he left a link to a supposed T.petiveriana from a museum that had black underwings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Yeah, I put a link to the description in an earlier post. Did you see Orin's post where he left a link to a supposed T.petiveriana from a museum that had black underwings? Ah...I didn't see that. Chances are the species was IDed before the bernhardti was described, which would explain for the black wings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Ah...I didn't see that. Chances are the species was IDed before the bernhardti was described, which would explain for the black wings. Hmm.. maybe. That is very possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allpet Roaches Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 What WE HAVE in culture is T. bernhardti if the key is truly valid. There is no key and that description does not describe differences from T. petiveriana as is common for a normal new species description. It will be interesting to see how or if this problem is ever addressed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolas Rousseaux Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Hi guys, I have both strains from Jorg in culture. An important thing to know is that both black AND yellow underwings were obviously mixed in his roaches. So, or both are from the same species, and it's just an inner species variation, or they can hybridize and in that case, botch of my colonies are just bullshit. By security, I've kept all black hindwings adults in a tank, and all yellow hindwings in an other one. I'm waiting for their babies to get adult so I'll know it has a chance to be two different species or not. Originally, all those Therea were sold as Therea petiveriana. The strain was obviously ID by Fabian Deck in Belgium who compared them with other Therea in a museum. I personnaly know him, and last time I saw him we discussed about the possibility it was not petiveriana. Indeed, this species was the more close to what we have in captivity, but he didn't made any wings comparison or anything, he was very quick to ID them and confess he might be wrong, but there were no other Therea in stock that looked like this. I had a very quick talk with Ingo Fritzsche (who described Therea bernhardti) when I met him last year and he clearly told me the other species, with yellow underwings, was maybe from the same species. No one knows at the moment, but we shouldn't be too enthusiastic about this "new species". If my colony occur to be 100% yellow hindwing, I'll send him some samples so he can confirm me if it's new or not. Note: what we have in culture is Therea bernhardti, not petiveriana. True petiveriana has hindwings longer than berhardti. When the ID mistake was spotted, Ingo described the new species but the wrong name was already very popular in the hobby. The two strains, yellow and black hindwings, are very short winged. In both case, they are definitely not Therea petiveriana Best regards, Nicolas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allpet Roaches Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Note: what we have in culture is Therea bernhardti, not petiveriana. True petiveriana has hindwings longer than berhardti. However, the new description includes two different sized wings and wing length is something that varies within many species and is notoriously a poor indicator. If there is not a definitive specific feature a new description is invalid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanislas Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 It's tempting to put their DNA on one of the sequencers here  (I'm working as labspecialist and bioinformatician in a human genetics lab)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 4 hours ago, stanislas said: It's tempting to put their DNA on one of the sequencers here  (I'm working as labspecialist and bioinformatician in a human genetics lab)... That'd be great, keep us updated on that, would probably clear things up a bit as to the whole bernhardti/petiveriana debate!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolas Rousseaux Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 A few news: I visited the Paris Museum's collection and compared T. petiveriana (from the museum) to my T. berhardti. Sizes are VERY different, no exception. T. petiveriana is way smaller than what we keep! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 On 4/27/2017 at 11:27 AM, Nicolas Rousseaux said: A few news: I visited the Paris Museum's collection and compared T. petiveriana (from the museum) to my T. berhardti. Sizes are VERY different, no exception. T. petiveriana is way smaller than what we keep! Just how much smaller? What sex was it? Is it possible that T.petiveriana was just a runt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talace Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Hi I am new to this but why don't they just DNA subjects to determine what they are? Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 1 hour ago, talace said: Hi I am new to this but why don't they just DNA subjects to determine what they are? Yeah, I really think someone should just go ahead and do that already. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolas Rousseaux Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 On 04/05/2017 at 11:17 PM, Hisserdude said: Just how much smaller? What sex was it? Is it possible that T.petiveriana was just a runt? I'd say they were about the size of Therea regularis. Both sex were smaller. There were several specimens, all were about the same size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 6 hours ago, Nicolas Rousseaux said: I'd say they were about the size of Therea regularis. Both sex were smaller. There were several specimens, all were about the same size Hmm, well that's not that much smaller really, but the fact that they were all that size... So we either have a giant morph of T.petiveriana, or T.bernhardti. Thanks for the info Nicolas, really appreciate it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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