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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Mantids and Cockroaches (Dictyoptera) » Cockroaches (Blattaria) » Blaberidae » Pycnoscelus » Surinam Cockroach (Pycnoscelus surinamensis)

Species Pycnoscelus surinamensis - Surinam Cockroach

Classification · Other Common Names · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · Internet References
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Dictyoptera (Mantids and Cockroaches)
Suborder Blattaria (Cockroaches)
Family Blaberidae
Genus Pycnoscelus
Species surinamensis (Surinam Cockroach)
Other Common Names
Surinam roach
Size
Adults to about 20mm.
Identification
Pale leading edge on the dark brown to black pronotum. Wings olive-green to brown, entirely cover the abdomen.
Range
Reported in Texas, Louisiana and Florida. Native to humid tropics worldwide, and elsewhere in the US may also be a pest of greenhouses and other indoor areas where tropical plants are grown .
Remarks
Reproduces through parthenogenesis in the US, where no males are found. It has two sexes in some parts of the world (Europe and Indo-Malaysia), though. Unlike many roaches, the egg capsule is retained inside the female's abdomen until young are ready to emerge. Usually described as giving birth to live young, however Modern Pest Services site below seems to show that the egg capsule is ejected from the female.
Internet References
University of Florida
Terminix.com
Modern Pest Services
Contributed by tom murray on 9 May, 2005 - 6:16pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason
Last updated 11 November, 2005 - 9:00am

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