CockroachTV Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 Hi, can you ID this roach please? A friend get some and want to give them to me. They came from Thailand. Sorry if this post is in the wrong category Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanislas Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 You should ask Nicolas Rousseaux (http://www.roachforum.com/index.php?/profile/3063-nicolas-rousseaux/). I've seen them in his collection when I visited him (or at least something like that). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolas Rousseaux Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Hey, It may be Melanozosteria, but I'm not totally sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehraban Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 I have some, too They're quite common from southern Myanmar through Thai, Lao, Cambodia to Vietnam, mostly forest-dwelling, but also I've met'em in gardens, on the ground, under logs or low on tree trunks. Adults - from september to ?november? [I haven't been there later], nymphs from 10mm - from the end of april or beginning of may... 40 - 50mm, blueish-black thorax|wings, dark reddish-brown abdomen. Pretty impressive roaches, wary, quick, and - unexpectedly - pretty fragile creatures. This whitish substance is really a glue, mb, it's toxic, 'cause after contact with it ants die quite quickly, in several minutes... They're not easy to catch, and even more tricky to handle, 'cause of this glue. They imediately smear with this glue everything around, including themselves, and die :| And I've failed ingloriously with eggsacs - not a single hatchling after half a year, though embryos appeared to be intact but dead. Maybe, they need smth to be stimulated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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