H. Tanaka wanted to share some photos of the roaches he's been breeding (taken by a friend, titled on photo). He asked me to post them. I don't think I've seen a male photo on the forums.

So cryptic!

I haven't seen a male before either! Very cool looking. Any pictures of others? Is he producing babies?



Kevin

He has a whole colony but he's in Japan

Very cool looking.

Hmm I wonder what makes him so successful with them compared to most people ....


Kevin

Oh WOW... I had no idea they had such long wings, looks somewhat like a longhorn beetle.

What the hell is that?!
Looks like a true bug

It does look like a coreid bug! Fantastic species. Have you asked him what his "secret" is? I was pretty sure there were some U.S. keepers.

Roachman had a species like this one of the last time i saw him, albeit slightly less odd. It was dark like that and resembled a large wasp. Its surprising alot of these weirder species aren't more common on the market considering their exotic appearance.

This pic was also put up on this Japanese cockroach forum. It's hard to tell what's going on sometimes but it's still fun to look at some of the pictures of stuff we don't have, at least in the states.

Japanese 'roach site

Do you mean Paranauphoeta formosana?
Anyway, I noticed that an adult male only lived 35 days. This doesn't seem typical for a large species?