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desert cockroach - Arenivaga - female
Copyright © 2006 Jim McClarin

desert cockroach - Arenivaga - Female
Organ Mountains foothills, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA
August 12, 2006
Size: about 11 mm
This is one of two such flightless short-bodied roaches that fell into my pitfall traps. I was told by Dave Richman at NMSU in Las Cruces that it appeared to be a female of the only (or one of the few, I forget) native roach species in the area. He said the females are flightless.

Most roaches are known to be very moisture dependent. I wonder what adaptations this species has to enable it to survive in a desert area.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 3 September, 2006 - 10:19am
Last updated 17 October, 2006 - 4:12pm

Moved
Moved from Cockroaches.
… Eric R. Eaton, 17 October, 2006 - 4:12pm login or register to post comments

Thank you, Eric.
I particularly like adding something new to bugguide, in this case a new sex. I have pix of another that looks a little different from this one. Maybe I'll post those too and see what you think.
… Jim McClarin, 7 September, 2006 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

Arenivaga.
These roaches are not uncommon, but the females are very rarely seen. We have images of males already, so this is a great complement, and a very nice find, Jim.
… Eric R. Eaton, 7 September, 2006 - 7:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Hmmm,
I don't find this genus name in bugguide, although it is a species name for a ve*lvet a*nt.
… Jim McClarin, 7 September, 2006 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

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