Keith Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 As far as temp, diet, etc are they all the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allpet Roaches Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Sort of, they all survive well under the same conditions but some require better food (some fruits) and higher temperatures to reproduce with any great success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolas Rousseaux Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 yeah you can keep them in the same conditions, but some species prefer lower temperature I think, such as Gromphadorhina oblongonata which lives in mountains. But beware, loads of hissers are actually hybrids or misindentified. I bought 3 different species last years, and give a male of each one to a friend of mine. He compared the genitalia with the schema of a scientific book and all the species were misidentified Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allpet Roaches Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Gromphadorhina descriptions were based primarily on the horn structure of the male, I've seen some of the original descriptions. I'd love to see that schema of hisser genitalia in a scan. Original descriptions based on variable horn structure, pronotum shape and surface texture is why stocks I sent specimens of to a cockroach taxonomist identified as G. portentosa, G. oblongonota, and Princisia all interbreed readily in captivity. They probably are just geographic races and may not even qualify as different subspecies. It is not that people misidentify them, the original "Princisia" never existed and was simply a taxonomic error of someone trying to use a variable specific character as though it were a stable generic character (the notch in the pronotum) without checking to see the male genitalia were identical. However, this does not mean there are not a number of unique stocks that vary in appearance and specific husbandry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolas Rousseaux Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Hi no matter, I've lost the scan but my friend will send it back to me. I'll start a new topic, it may be a really interestant discussion and I'll probably learn a lot of things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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