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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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Parcoblatta virginica? - Parcoblatta virginica - female
Copyright © 2010 Kyle Kandilian

Parcoblatta virginica? - Parcoblatta virginica - Female
Dearborn, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
I found this female Parcoblatta under a log here in Michigan. She's still hanging around, and she has plenty of babies to keep her company! I'm thinking Parcoblatta virginica.

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Contributed by Kyle Kandilian on 28 August, 2010 - 10:52pm
Last updated 1 October, 2014 - 1:40pm

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I agree that there are differences between this cockroach and your other submission:

But these differences could be normal variation. I believe they are the same species and I suspect P. virginica for the reasons detailed here:


The only way to definitively identify these is if you are able to raise the offspring to maturity. If one is a male, the specialized structures underneath the wings are diagnostic. It is not that difficult to raise these wood cockroaches, although most people are not up for the task!

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