Two adult males I measured were about 25mm from head to wing tip.
I checked the median segment and the first abdominal segment underneath the wings of one dead adult male of these, what I called "Black Divisa" and it looks like it is a P. pennsylvanica. So these are not P. divisa. Sorry for my mistake. I noticed that my P. virginica and this female P. pennsylvanica carried their oothecae, after tilting it (Parcoblatta carry their oothecae stuck to the tip of their abdomens side ways so that the ootheca side is touching the ground, while being laid the ootheca's bottom is toward the ground as you can see in the picture of the female Parcoblatta virginica to the left.), the top part of the ootheca pointing toward the right side. She has laid another ootheca on June 4th 2014. Her ootheca has not turned to the side yet in the photos below because the ootheca is being laid, she will turn the ootheca to the side not too long after the ootheca comes most of the way out. I also found the ootheca that was missing in the container. The side Dorsal
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