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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea » Ectobiidae » Blattellinae » Wood Cockroaches (Parcoblatta) » Virginia Wood Cockroach (Parcoblatta virginica)
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Wood roach? - Parcoblatta virginica
Copyright © 2009 Bo Zaremba

Wood roach? - Parcoblatta virginica
Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 5, 2009
Size: 13mm
Found under log miles from nearest dwelling. If a nymph, does that mean it overwintered outside in New England? Would that eliminate the southern species?

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Contributed by Bo Zaremba on 5 April, 2009 - 4:30pm
Last updated 3 July, 2014 - 11:43pm

Moved
Moved from Cockroaches and Termites.
… Kyle Kandilian, 3 July, 2014 - 11:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cockroaches.
… Charley Eiseman, 11 October, 2009 - 5:12pm login or register to post comments

Smokey-brown
Looks like a Smokey-brown Cockroach nymph to me.
… Paul Naftzger, 5 April, 2009 - 5:10pm login or register to post comments

 
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I do not think Smokey-brown Cockroach gets up this far north.
… Bo Zaremba, 5 April, 2009 - 6:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Visitor from the South?
I haven’t seen a lot of Smoky Brown cockroach nymphs, but the over-all appearance of your specimen suggests the genus Periplaneta (e.g. presence of ventral spines on mid and hind legs, large size of nymph). The lack of coloration of the pronotum really suggests Periplaneta fuliginosa, although I’m not certain how variable nymphs of rarer species are. An additional factor favoring smoky brown roaches is that they move around. This specimen could have hitched a ride in a box shipped from warmer areas perhaps?
… John Carlson, 6 April, 2009 - 11:40am login or register to post comments

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