charzard Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 I found a Parcoblatta pennsylvanica nymph before and wasn't sure if this is the adult or another cockroach species? Found in Woodstock, CT. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charzard Posted June 12, 2017 Author Share Posted June 12, 2017 And I also found this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 The first one is a Parcoblatta virginica male, the second individual is a P.pennsylvanica male I'm pretty sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tleilaxu Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Now make them mate, gender is an abstract concept... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charzard Posted June 12, 2017 Author Share Posted June 12, 2017 16 hours ago, Hisserdude said: The first one is a Parcoblatta virginica male, the second individual is a P.pennsylvanica male I'm pretty sure. Great, thank you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 2 hours ago, charzard said: Great, thank you!! No problem, happy to help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matttoadman Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 I just found some like the first along with super dark females. I am amazed at their ability to fly as well as a moth. Fast little buggers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Both are male P. virginica, with second specimen being a darker morph. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charzard Posted June 13, 2017 Author Share Posted June 13, 2017 15 minutes ago, Cariblatta lutea said: Both are male P. virginica, with second specimen being a darker morph. Man..how can you tell? I was trying to look at the differences between each species. They just look very much alike. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 16 hours ago, Cariblatta lutea said: Both are male P. virginica, with second specimen being a darker morph. Woah, what? That's crazy, looks so much like a pensylvanica or divisa male, can't believe some virginica can look like that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehraban Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Hi all! Have a roach to ID. I think it's smth like Pseudophoraspis, but it's only my assumption... Male - now it's already dead: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehraban Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Female - yea, it's adult female, still alive and active: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehraban Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Found them in a heap of decaying leaves in eastern Myanmar, in Tenasserim mountains, near Thai border - if it matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Reminds me of genus Rhicnoda 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 The female does look like Rhicnoda, the male could be as well, but it could also be another species from the Epilamprinae though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehraban Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 Thanks! Yea, it looks very similar to www-Ricnoda pics, especially this funny position - tail-up, when disturbed, female somehow flattens itself and rises abdomen. Let it be Ricnoda, so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehraban Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 8 hours ago, Hisserdude said: it could also be another species from the Epilamprinae I don't think so - took'em all from one heap of leaves, as large nymphs, male molted to imago earlier and died. Moreover, he had managed to mate with female shortly after she molted for the last time - so now I've about a dozen or more I2-nymphs... If they're interspecific hybrids, I'll be very much surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 10 hours ago, mehraban said: I don't think so - took'em all from one heap of leaves, as large nymphs, male molted to imago earlier and died. Moreover, he had managed to mate with female shortly after she molted for the last time - so now I've about a dozen or more I2-nymphs... If they're interspecific hybrids, I'll be very much surprised. Ah OK, they are likely the same species then! Nice find, hope they do well for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehraban Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 ... So they've perished. Don't understand how\why - just perished. The one and the only species of all my roaches, more than 50; all the rest are feeling better or worse, but feeling. I'm now back home - travelled for 1,5 months, and there're not even anything like remnants in their enclosure. Just disappeared without any traces. Food, humidity, shelters - everything seemed to be OK, but the result is somehow stunning for me. Moreover: I've a colony of some woodlice in the same enclosure, and they've not just survived - they're now innumerable, colony is bursting with youngs. Does anybody has anything like an experience of woodlice exterminating roaches in polyculture? O_o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehraban Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 6 hours ago, mehraban said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 6 hours ago, mehraban said: ... So they've perished. Don't understand how\why - just perished. The one and the only species of all my roaches, more than 50; all the rest are feeling better or worse, but feeling. I'm now back home - travelled for 1,5 months, and there're not even anything like remnants in their enclosure. Just disappeared without any traces. Food, humidity, shelters - everything seemed to be OK, but the result is somehow stunning for me. Moreover: I've a colony of some woodlice in the same enclosure, and they've not just survived - they're now innumerable, colony is bursting with youngs. Does anybody has anything like an experience of woodlice exterminating roaches in polyculture? O_o Sometimes isopods can out-breed and overpower certain roaches, particularly fragile species, (which Epilamprids seem to be). There's also a good possibility your roaches just died for some reason, and then were devoured by the isopods, (which can eat their bodies, exoskeleton and all). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betta132 Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Are you certain they didn't escape? If I were you, I'd try and find more. Love the textured back on the females! They look almost like they have little crocodile scales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehraban Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 13 hours ago, Hisserdude said: Sometimes isopods can out-breed and overpower certain roaches, particularly fragile species, (which Epilamprids seem to be). There's also a good possibility your roaches just died for some reason, and then were devoured by the isopods, (which can eat their bodies, exoskeleton and all). Yes, I think so, too; the main question for me is the reason. Maybe some disease. They were F0, just offspring from WC animals, so it's quite possible. Woodlice were quite tolerant when roaches were L1, though quite numerous (they're somehow pesting in my vivariums, brought them occasionally from Lao several years ago, now they're literally everywhere, even with chilopods and scorpions...), so, IMO, if they took part in devouring, then they consumed either dead or dying insects. 12 hours ago, Betta132 said: Are you certain they didn't escape? If I were you, I'd try and find more. Love the textured back on the females! They look almost like they have little crocodile scales. Yes, I'm sure. They can't climb polypropylene anyway, and enclosure is always tightly closed (no phorids, sciarids etc., so meshes are fine, boxes are closed). And yea, I've already found - not adults, about 20 large nymphs, from another location (that were from Myanmar, these are from Lao), but, IMO, it's one species, Ricnoda rugosa is widespread over all the region, from Myanmar to Vietnam. Maybe, in spring I can go to Myanmar again, though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 14 hours ago, mehraban said: Yes, I think so, too; the main question for me is the reason. Maybe some disease. They were F0, just offspring from WC animals, so it's quite possible. Woodlice were quite tolerant when roaches were L1, though quite numerous (they're somehow pesting in my vivariums, brought them occasionally from Lao several years ago, now they're literally everywhere, even with chilopods and scorpions...), so, IMO, if they took part in devouring, then they consumed either dead or dying insects. Yes, I'm sure. They can't climb polypropylene anyway, and enclosure is always tightly closed (no phorids, sciarids etc., so meshes are fine, boxes are closed). And yea, I've already found - not adults, about 20 large nymphs, from another location (that were from Myanmar, these are from Lao), but, IMO, it's one species, Ricnoda rugosa is widespread over all the region, from Myanmar to Vietnam. Maybe, in spring I can go to Myanmar again, though... Well, I'm glad you caught more of them, hope you are successful in culturing them this time around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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