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American Cockroach - Periplaneta americana
Copyright © 2004 Lynette Schimming

American Cockroach - Periplaneta americana
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
November 12, 2004
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Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 21 January, 2005 - 5:15pm
Last updated 10 May, 2007 - 2:21pm

Looks more like a woods roach
I don't know the distribution of roaches in NC, but this specimen looks identical to a FL woods roach. Adult FL woods roaches don't have the yellow side markings on the thorax. Those only appear on nymphs. American roaches have much longer and narrower cerci. My inforamtion comes from the Univ. of FL Entomology and Nematology Dept. publicaton SP87.
… Scott Nelson, 13 June, 2006 - 10:11am login or register to post comments

 
Not positive on the ID,
but to add to the info it was found with this one .
… Lynette Schimming, 14 June, 2006 - 10:48am login or register to post comments

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