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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea » Ovoviviparous Cockroaches (Blaberidae) » Pycnoscelus » Surinam Cockroach (Pycnoscelus surinamensis)
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Surinam Cockroach - Pycnoscelus surinamensis - female
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Surinam Cockroach - Pycnoscelus surinamensis - Female
Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
October 23, 2004
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Contributed by tom murray on 30 April, 2005 - 10:18pm
Last updated 28 February, 2023 - 2:05pm

It looks like an...
oriental cockroach.
… e. fosdick, 6 April, 2009 - 5:09pm login or register to post comments

Thanks Paul
It looks like this is the only female on the guide page.
… tom murray, 5 January, 2008 - 3:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Parthenogenesis
Actually they are all females. No males are known in the US. It is just that people forget to fill up the fields: adult/immature, male/female. This is deplorable because that info is very useful when using the Advance Search. I will try to fill in that info for the others.
BTW, if you can add the county, it would show up in Google maps when using the Advance Search.
It has no wings, so I assume that it is immature, rather than adult. See the others.
… Beatriz Moisset, 1 November, 2009 - 8:55am login or register to post comments

female Pycnoscelus surinamensis
I'm pretty sure this is an adult female of Pycnoscelus surinamensis in Blaberidae.
… Paul Lenhart, 5 January, 2008 - 10:17am login or register to post comments

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