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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea » Ectobiidae » Blattellinae » Wood Cockroaches (Parcoblatta) » Fulvous Wood Cockroach (Parcoblatta fulvescens)
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Maybe a roach? - Parcoblatta fulvescens - female
Copyright © 2010 Clifford P

Maybe a roach? - Parcoblatta fulvescens - Female
Owasso, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA
August 22, 2010
Size: 1/2 inch or shorter
Is it a roach? It kind of looks like pictures of Madagascar roach (based on coloring) but those pictures looked much bigger than this bug. Thanks for the help!
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Contributed by Clifford P on 22 September, 2010 - 10:51am
Last updated 25 June, 2016 - 8:13pm

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Moved from Wood Cockroaches.
… Alan Jeon, 25 June, 2016 - 8:13pm login or register to post comments

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This is a native species of the US, belonging to the genus Parcoblatta. Yours is an adult female. I stongly suspect that it is the same as this one:

And I am almost certain that this one is P. fulvescens. The females of this genus do not generally have reliable traits for identification; identification requires a male at this time. The BugGuide contributor that posted the similar cockroach has kept his alive and is growing a small colony of them now. Hopefully one will grow up to be a male that we can identify, and by comparison we may be able to provide you a more firm answer as to your cockroaches name.

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… John Carlson, 29 September, 2010 - 9:24pm login or register to post comments

Definitely a Cockroach.
You'll improve your chances of getting a more specific ID if you crop your pic as close to the subject as possible. Only you and the editors can see the full-size version. Everybody else is left looking at a tiny bug in a big background.

You can replace the current pic by clicking on "edit" and simply uploading the cropped version.

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 22 September, 2010 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

 
thanks
I thought not cropping would be better to get a perspective of the size, but I'll replace the photo. Thanks for the tip.
… Clifford P, 22 September, 2010 - 11:11am login or register to post comments

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