vfox Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 As I said in my last post (sorry for making so many new topics today lol) that I was cleaning all my cages this evening. Well, I noticed an odd roach in my mixed roach tank and had a question about it. The tank contains Blaptica dubia, Blaberus discoidalis, Byrsotria rothi, and Archimandrita tesselata. Now my question is...knowing how much this looks like a discoid but with a very odd pronotum marking, what the heck is it if not just that? My B.rothi and A.tesselata are still nymphs I think, I doubt this is one of them...but I've never had adults of either so I am not sure. It's the same size as a discoid female though...so I'm going with just odd pronotum marking. What say you? Sorry for the cruddy pic, it's from my phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosenKrieger Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Just looks like a discoid with an odd pronotum marking to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Undeniably a hybrid. If you got them from aaronpauling.com or gregsexoticinverts, it's definitely a hybrid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfox Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 Undeniably a hybrid. If you got them from aaronpauling.com or gregsexoticinverts, it's definitely a hybrid. Looking at it again it looks a lot like your Byrsotria species you're selling. I got my rothi from you, do you think this might be one of the others that may have been an accidental transplant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Looking at it again it looks a lot like your Byrsotria species you're selling. I got my rothi from you, do you think this might be one of the others that may have been an accidental transplant? There's no doubt in my mind that that's a Blaberus discoidalis x Blaberus boliviensis hybrid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfox Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 There's no doubt in my mind that that's a Blaberus discoidalis x Blaberus boliviensis hybrid. That's also a good possibility. I got mine from Aaron Pauling several months ago. They seem very sexually dismorphic compared to other discoids ive seen, are boliviensis like that normally? This is a female too, do you guys think I should cull her or do you think the blood line is already tainted for the entire lot? And for that matter does anyone still have a pure lot of discoids? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I think BugmanPrice put it well in a thread a while back... Once you've got one hybrid in the lot, it's game over. The whole lot is tainted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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