I find these inside tall pine stumps. They are not as common as the P. lata and P. divisa, but in certain stumps I find more of these P. pennsylvanica than the other two species that inhabit still standing dead pine trees. I failed the first time I tried to keep these. I had one female and several males. The oothecae the female I had laid did not hatch. I probably kept the oothecae too moist so they rotted. Now I have another chance at breeding these. I caught some October 20th and October 22nd 2014. I caught three females and three males. I sent two pairs to Alan Jeon for breeding. Alan Jeon is trying to breed the females that are macropterous. Because that one female I had before was macropterous and because of this picture of a macropterous Parcoblatta pennsylvanica female from Orange County, NC (http://www.carolinanature.com/insects/cockroach90273.jpg) there is a chance he will be able to breed the macropterous form of Parcoblatta pennsylvanica.
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I was told by Alan Jeon that this is a real Parcoblatta fulvescens and not one of those common "Possible Caudelli" Parcoblatta. I got several oothecae from her and many nymphs hatched. I sent 10 of her nymphs to Kevin Young for him to breed. She is still living right now, but she is showing signs of ware and tare with some of her legs and antennae broken off. I captured her in our neighborhood during the night on the edge of a sidewalk near the lawn grass. There were plums on the ground there from a plum tree growing in the yard. This male in the pictures below is possibly truly the Parcoblatta caudelli species. This male is the only one I remember seeing of the likes of this Parcoblatta. He is strange. Unfortunately I lost his dead body. I kept him in a too moist container and when I saw him he was already rotten. I put him somewhere but then forgot about him. Oh!, with his dead body an entomologist could have maybe found out what he was!... but, alas, it is not to be... lol Pictures of Parcoblatta uhleriana below: "Possible caudelli" pictures below: Interesting rhinoceros beetle. Looks more like a Bess Beetle than a Rhino beetle to me. This summer I have found two of these Phileurus truncatus (One male and one female) at a Wilco Hess Station at nights. The male died soon after I caught him so I am not certain if he mated with the female. The female is still living and seems healthy. I am keeping her in our refrigerator until I can ferment different types of wood to see if she will lay eggs in.
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
Blaberus cf. matogrossensis and Byrsotria sp. "Cuba" and Byrsotria fumigata from Roachcrossing.com5/27/2014 A few months ago I ordered several species of roaches from Kyle Kandilian (roachcrossing.com). He is very nice person. He was happy to replace one species that died during shipping and one species he forgot to send when I told him about what happened (he paid for the shipping!). Today I tried to compare the Byrsotria sp. "Cuba" with Byrsotria fumigata to see if there are any differences. I did not look very hard so I will keep looking for differences in the future. But for now they look very similar to me. The Byrsotria sp. "Cuba" of similar size (and so probably similar age) to the Byrsotria fumigata have more of a white margin on their pronotum than the Byrsotria fumigata of similar size (and probably similar age). But Byrsotria sp. "Cuba" could possibly have just a little white margin like Byrsotria fumigata so this might not be a good way to tell them apart. Pictures: Byrsotria sp. "Cuba" nymphsUnderside of Byrsotria sp. "Cuba" nymphUnderside of Byrsotria fumigata nymphUnderside of another, larger Byrsotria fumigata nymphByrsotria sp. "Cuba" nymphsByrsotria sp. "Cuba"In real life when I looked at the little guy in the middle I think it looked similar to the Byrsotria fumigata because of the coloration and just a little bit of white margin on the pronotum. Byrsotria sp. "Cuba"Byrsotria sp. "Cuba"Byrsotria sp. "Cuba"Byrsotria sp. "Cuba"Byrsotria fumigataByrsotria fumigataByrsotria sp. "Cuba"Byrsotria fumigataMale? Byrsotria fumigata nymphByrsotira sp. "Cuba"Byrsotria sp. "Cuba"Byrsotria sp. "Cuba"Byrsotria sp. "Cuba"Two Byrsotria sp. "Cuba" and the one on the farthest left is Byrsotria fumigataTwo Byrsotria sp. "Cuba" on the right side and the other two on the left side are Byrsotria fumigataByrsotria fumigata nymphsByrsotria fumigataByrstoria fumigataHere are pictures and a video I took today of a few of my P. virginica. P. virginica are easy to keep. They will chew on my skin and so could be aggressive and eat other roaches while molting. Video of Parcoblatta virginica adultsHere are some pictures of Parcoblatta divisa and Parcoblatta lata I have caught in North Carolina. Those two species were quite common when I looked for them. They were inside old pine wood stumps that you could brake with your bare hands. Also I found many under bark of not so old pine stumps. I found some under the bark of dead pine tree trunks up so high I could just barely reach the roaches even if I used a long stick (I used the long stick to peel the bark off so that the roaches would jump or fall to the ground). Most of the P. divisa I had died and many P. lata also died probably because of my lack of care. They might need a little dry conditions to live well. With the P. divisa and P. lata I found one type of roaches that could be P. divisa, but is slightly different. I am wondering if it is a different species. You can see pictures of these species and also some other animals here:https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1477415722480719.1073741883.100006369157688&&l=7eba8b1567 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1474331186122506.1073741879.100006369157688&&l=5800033dee https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1465356940353264.1073741872.100006369157688&&l=e9926a5a7c Male nymph P. divisaAdult male P. divisaNymphs of P. lataUnknown species of roach (Is Parcoblatta pennsylvanica) I have a friend in Alabama that has caught roaches that seem like the same type as these unknown roaches I am catching. He thought they could be a variation of P. pennsylvanica. But after one of his males molted to adult he checked the median segment and he says they are like P. divisa. I am not so sure if they are the same species. I have not checked the median segment of the males of my unknown roaches. I have one female of the unknown roaches. Most of the P. lata and P. divisa and these unknown roaches were male. I sexed them by looking at the underside of their abdomens. All of the males of the unknown roaches are dead now. The one female is energetic still though. She was with the males for sometime, so I think she is mated. I was unable to see if the male of the unknown species would try to mate with the females of the P. divisa because the males of the unknown species died before any females of the P. divisa became adult. I have not yet got a female P. divisa to adult (they died and they were not very close to becoming adult when the males of the unknown species died). She laid one ootheca. I am not all the way certain because I did not see the ootheca and I could not find it, but she got much more skinny, so she had to have laid an ootheca. I am keeping the container carefully to not shake the dirt that could cover the ootheca I could not find. I moved the female to another smaller container so that I could easily find the ootheca if she laid another. As nymphs these roaches were fast which made it hard to photograph them and their legs would brake off easily if I tried to hold them. The adult males would fly. Here are pictures of these roaches and comparison of the unknown roaches and P. divisa. I am sorry for these bad photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1490314724524152.1073741885.100006369157688&&l=59e3ef4c52 Adult femaleAdult maleMale sub-adult nymph and P. divisa sub-adult nymph on topPre-sub-adults nymphs with one P. lata nymph on topOne of the unknown roaches adult male and two adult male P. divisaNotice the size difference. The adult male unknown roach is larger and darker in color than the P. divisa. They were also darker and larger in size when I compared both species as nymphs which makes sense. The adult male P. divisa I had varied in color but none were near as dark as these unknown roaches. The adult males of the unknown roaches did not vary very much in color. The friend in Alabama has his P. divisa larger than these unknown dark colored roaches. His P. divisa are captive bred and he feeds them good food with probably a lot of protein. He says the wild P. divisa are smaller than his captive bred ones. He has not captive bred these unknown roaches. If he did breed this type of roach they could turn out bigger than the captive bred P. divisa. I wonder if he compared the wild P. divisa he has in his area with these unknown roaches. One video of Parcoblatta lata, divisa and unknown speciesI have only looked in areas North of Raleigh, NC, so I do not know about the other parts of North Carolina (also looked a little in Virginia). This is not a perfect list or anything, but I want to at least list some roaches. So here you go! ParcoblattaThere are several species of Parcoblatta here in the NC. I would see several times during the summer Parcoblatta flying into our house. I find Parcoblatta in pine leaves, oak leaves and rotting wood. Parcoblatta uhleriana. This species has been found in New York and Alabama so has a big range. I have found Parcoblatta uhleriana in oak leaves, pine needles, mixtures of leaves and under and near wood. I find oothecae in oak leaves, other types of tree leaves and squeezed into cracks in small logs. I think many species of roaches here eat a white fungus that grows in leaves and wood because I find them around the fungus. Adult males of this species have one pair of modified structures (the dots underneath the wings) which are on their median segments. Unidentified Parcoblatta. This species could be the most common Parcoblatta here in my area. Found in pine needles and oak leaves. This species has two pairs of modified structures (One pair of dots on the median segment and one pair on the first abdominal segment) and P. fulvescens has only one pair which are on the median segment. Parcoblatta caudelli adult females are full winged (macropterous). Parcoblatta divisa? I have only found one dead adult male that is likely P. divisa. I found the male in a tractor supply store in Franklin County where I also found other species of dead Parcoblatta males. (Update: 2014, May, 15th: I have found P. divisa and P. lata nymphs in the older instar stages in abundance inside pine tree stumps during the beginning of 2014 during the winter, near spring time.) Parcoblatta virginica. These are found in moist fallen pine logs and oak logs and in pine needles and oak leaves. P. virginica can be blackish to a lighter rusty brown in color. This species and Parcoblatta bolliana are much smaller than the other species of Parcoblatta (P. bolliana being slightly smaller than P. virginica.). Other species of Parcoblatta do not have the dark head the P. virginica have, but sometimes P. virginica might not have a very dark head. The flash from a camera sometimes makes the blackness on the P. virginica's head disappear and seem to have a light colored head with just two black eyes. Parcoblatta bolliana. The females of this species have very small wings. Males have full wings. L1 nymphs have a thick light colored band that goes lateral across the middle of their bodies. I find these in pine needles and oak leaves and often around ant nests in the leaves. Ischnoptera deropeltiformisI find these in pine needles and oak leaves. I found a male L1 nymph in Southamton, Virginia in pine needles. This species is stunning! After molting they are a dull yellowish light brown and then get darker after some time. The adult females make a smell like the smell earwigs make and secrete a clear sticky fluid from the rear end when grabbed. Ischnoptera deropeltiformis at 1st instar nymphs have white tipped antennae. Cariblatta luteaAdults are about 7mm long. L1 nymphs are under 2mm long. Adult females are dark colored to light colored, but males I have had are always light colored. On the underneath side of the adult's abdomens the males have a thin line of black while the female's underneath side of the abdomen is mostly black, this black varies in both males and females. Found in pine needles and oak leaves on the sides of roads. I have found sub-adults during May. I found a male nymph in Southampton, Virginia in pine needles. There is said to be two subspecies of Cariblatta lutea: Cariblatta lutea lutea (has wings that go to the tip of the abdomen or wings a little shorter than abdomen) and Cariblatta lutea minima (I have heard has small wings.). Cariblatta lutea minima is found in southern Florida and maybe Cuba (Blattodea.speciesfile.org). These two subspecies are said to live together and not do interbreed in Florida. I have read that people are wondering if these two subspecies should be put into different species. Chorisoneura texensisThis species is attracted to lights during the night. Adults are about 7~8mm long. Found in pine needles and other types of leaves. Nymphs flatten out in cracks. The females, after carrying their oothecae for a couple days, stick their oothecae to leaves or the sides of the container. Also found in Alabama and Florida.
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