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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea » Ectobiidae » Blattellinae » Wood Cockroaches (Parcoblatta) » Pennsylvania Wood Cockroach (Parcoblatta pennsylvanica)
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Pennsylvania Wood Cockroach - Parcoblatta pennsylvanica
Copyright © 2009 John Pearson

Pennsylvania Wood Cockroach - Parcoblatta pennsylvanica
Ackworth, Warren County, Iowa, USA
April 22, 2009
Size: 2.8 cm (ex. antennae)
I swatted this one off the wall, then realized it was different that the Oriental cockroaches I occasionally see in the house.

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Contributed by John Pearson on 22 April, 2009 - 8:29pm
Last updated 23 April, 2009 - 8:39am

Non-pest wood cockroach.
All the domestic pest roaches came from elsewhere, mostly tropical Africa....This is a male Pennsylvania Wood Cockroach, Parcoblatta pensylvanica. They often fly to lights at night. Totally harmless, valuable decomposer of organic matter. Never an indoor resident.
… Eric R. Eaton, 23 April, 2009 - 2:15am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Eric!
I will adopt a more gentle removal protocol for this species if it shows up inside my house in the future!
… John Pearson, 23 April, 2009 - 8:36am login or register to post comments

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