Cariblatta Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Cariblatta are Parcoblatta lata bigger than P. uhleriana? Yep. P. lata is one of the largest Parcoblatta species in eastern states Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 Yep. P. lata is one of the largest Parcoblatta species in eastern states Oh my gosh!! Bigger than P. pennsylvanica? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 I think I was wrong. Not all the ones I caught were just two species, but the red ones Cariblatta told me that they are Parcoblatta lata. Videos. The black colored ones could be Parcoblatta pennsylvanica of the "southern type". The ones that have a lot of reddish are Parcoblatta lata, the rest with white margins on their pronotums are probably all Parcoblatta divisa. In the videos you cannot see how many there are. There are more underneath the substrate lol. I caught them a few days ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 Parcoblatta virginica nymphs. These I find outside in the woods the easiest at the moment. The few places I went to to look for Parcoblatta divisa it was easy to find many like the Parcoblatta virginica. The other species of Parcoblatta that live in the leaves are hard to catch even just a few this time of the year, but during the late summer I might be able to catch many of the unidentified possible caudelli because last summer I would find a lot of adults in pine needles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Oh my gosh!! Bigger than P. pennsylvanica? Oops. Didn't see this comment. Sorry for late reply. They are pretty compatible in size so it's hard to say. Southern pennsylvanica tend to be smaller than lata though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 Parcoblatta bolliana nymphs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted March 22, 2014 Author Share Posted March 22, 2014 The black Parcoblatta pennsylvanica or southern pennsylvanica seem to be P. divisa. Cariblatta had a southern pennsylvanica molt to adult and he said it turned out to be P. divisa. He told me mine were either P. pennsylvanica or a color form of P. divisa and I forgot to say that here. I think he meant that the "southern pennsylvanica" were either P. pennsylvanica or a color form of P. divisa and he was not talking just about my roaches. Sorry for bad pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 The "southern pennsylvanica" was a term I came up for black form of P. divisa that I erroneously thought that they were different strain of pennsylvanica than the northern ones due to their small size, and the fact that the black female I had never produced viable oothecae when she was housed with several divisa (I think this was due to my poor keeping condition). Few days ago, some of the "southern pennsylvanica" nymphs I collected matured into adult males so I checked under their wings to make sure that my ID was correct. When I did that, I realized that these males weren't pennsylvanica, but were divisa so I was able to determine that these "southern pennsylvanica" were actually just a black form of P. divisa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 Cariblatta do you know if some of the roaches in this image are Parcoblatta divisa and not Parcoblatta pennsylvanica? http://www.ncbi.nlm....748109fig04.jpg I feel more certain that the "possibly caudelli" are Parcoblatta caudelli because in this link it says in Raleigh Parcoblatta caudelli and Parcoblatta virginica were caught in the traps commonly and the only other common Parcoblatta similar are Parcoblatta fulvescens (I have not seen fulvescens, though I might have and thought it was the same thing as the caudelli) and Parcoblatta uhleriana. http://www.ncbi.nlm....les/PMC3286908/ I have read that P. fulvescens are common in Raleigh, but I wonder if they misidentified them because I did not find P. fulvescens looking males with just one pair of modified structure and not two pairs like the P. caudelli. To me the "possible caudelli" and the pictures by Cariblatta of P. fulvescens, both look similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Cariblatta do you know if some of the roaches in this image are Parcoblatta divisa and not Parcoblatta pennsylvanica? http://www.ncbi.nlm....748109fig04.jpg They look like P. divisa to me so I wonder if the scientists got the ID wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 Cariblatta has caught the macropterous Parcoblatta caudelli (or true caudelli) I think from Florida also a lot of other interesting roaches such as a different Cariblatta species and Latiblattella rehni. I might have caught an adult of the macropterous Parcoblatta caudelli here in North Carolina. And I have a caught a female Parcoblatta fulvescens (Alan Jeon said it was a fulvescens). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Parcoblatta caudelli female carrying an ootheca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 Cariblatta has caught the macropterous Parcoblatta caudelli (or true caudelli) I think from Florida *Correction: A friend of Cariblatta (Now his username is Cariblatta lutea) found that P. caudelli female on a tree accidentally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 First "true" caudelli ootheca hatched Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 More pics of Parcoblatta caudelli nymphs 1st instar : 2nd instar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanBuck Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 only 3? seems to be a small litter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 only 3? seems to be a small litter? There are about 20~30 nymphs in the enclosure, but since I didn't want to disturb all the specimens inside I only took out 6 specimens for pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanBuck Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Ah makes more sense now i had a female lay an egg case (turkestan roaches) but i never got to see it leave her as the other roaches ate it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Ah makes more sense now i had a female lay an egg case (turkestan roaches) but i never got to see it leave her as the other roaches ate it Sorry to hear that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanBuck Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Should have more egg cases hopefully in a week or 2 as all of my females look like they could be laying in that time frame! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 RomanBuck keep a water dish with water in their container and feed them often. That could help to stop them eating their oothecae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 Parcoblatta fulvescens eat wood. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1968811 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Pics I took today. Managed to get F2s this year Species is Parcoblatta bolliana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted December 25, 2014 Author Share Posted December 25, 2014 Parcoblatta fulvescens nymphs (maybe around the 2nd or 3rd instar?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted December 25, 2014 Author Share Posted December 25, 2014 They all came from one adult female I caught I think in July (?) on a sidewalk in my neighborhood where there were small rotting plums on the sidewalk and on the lawn because there was a plum tree in the yard. She is still living. Here are photos of her I took months ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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