Roach with egg case - Parcoblatta fulvescens

This might be another species

This might be another species. Near Raleigh, NC I have found many of adult males with modified structures on the median segment and first abdominal segment like Parcoblatta caudelli, except the females are brachypterus like this female in the picture. The wings might be a way to tell them apart in females. http://bugguide.net/node/view/792622

… Walter Nathaniel Long, 27 June, 2014 - 2:30pm

Moved

Moved from Cockroaches and Termites.

… v belov, 8 December, 2012 - 12:05pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 6 December, 2010 - 8:50pm

Makes me think of Parcoblatta

Wait to hear what John Carlson has to say, though.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 6 December, 2010 - 8:49pm

Almost certain

I strongly suspect that this is the same species as the one Ken has provided a link to, and I strongly suspect that specimen is Parcoblatta fulvescens. I don't know of any characters in the females that are diagnostic of the species, and I have never seen this species in person. As the number of these females posted to BugGuide increases the more certain I become that this striking difference in color between the abdomen and thorax will be a reliable characteristic. Wait around another 5 years and I'll finally convince myself or someone that actually knows them will join. The poster of that thumbnail linked by Ken is rearing his cockroaches in hopes of getting an adult male for definitive identification. Any chance you still have yours and are willing to do the same?

… John Carlson, 8 December, 2010 - 11:23pm

thanks for ID

I do not have the specimen. But now that I know, I'llkeep my eye open for another specimen with egg case and will try to rear next time.

… David Guzman, 9 December, 2010 - 6:12am