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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea » Ectobiidae » Blattellinae » Wood Cockroaches (Parcoblatta) » American Wood Cockroach (Parcoblatta americana)
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Parcoblatta americana male? - Parcoblatta americana - male
Copyright © 2014 Ken Schneider

Parcoblatta americana male? - Parcoblatta americana - Male
Mount Diablo Bioblitz, Contra Costa County, California, USA
April 12, 2014
Size: ca 2-3 cm
Found under a rock - only image I could get before it crawled away.
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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 12 April, 2014 - 8:35pm
Last updated 2 July, 2021 - 4:22am

Moved
Moved from Wood Cockroaches.
… Hisserdude, 2 July, 2021 - 4:22am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Wood Cockroaches.
… Alan Jeon, 1 October, 2014 - 7:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cockroaches and Termites.
… Alan Jeon, 1 October, 2014 - 7:56am login or register to post comments

Amazing! Does not look like
Amazing! Does not look like a P. americana. It's pronotum is large.

I wonder if this is a Parcoblatta notha or caudelli though I do not think either of those species have been found in your area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parcoblatta_notha
… Walter Nathaniel Long, 19 September, 2014 - 11:26am login or register to post comments

 
I probably made a mistake. T
I probably made a mistake. This roach looks similar to P. americana from these photos: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/728627
… Walter Nathaniel Long, 20 September, 2014 - 2:38am login or register to post comments

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