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Species Arenivaga bolliana - Boll's Sandroach

Some kind of Roach? - Arenivaga bolliana - male Boll's Sandroach - Arenivaga bolliana - female Unknown insect - Arenivaga bolliana - female Arenivaga sp.? - Arenivaga bolliana - female Arenivaga bolliana nymph - Arenivaga bolliana Black bug - Arenivaga bolliana Arenivaga bolliana - female Arenivaga bolliana - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Blattodea (Cockroaches and Termites)
Superfamily Corydioidea
Family Corydiidae
Subfamily Corydiinae
Genus Arenivaga
Species bolliana (Boll's Sandroach)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Arenivaga bolliana (Saussure)
Orig. Comb: Homoeogamia bolliana Saussure 1893
Numbers
Other related species occur in West and South Texas. (1)
Size
30 mm adult males. (1)
Identification

Det. Paul Lenhart, 2011
Range
TX / Mex. - Map (GBIF)
Habitat
The downy females have no wings and burrow in the dust under houses and in natural rock shelters where they feed on packrat droppings. (1)
This large roach is also present in abandoned Atta texana tunnels and in chambers filled with nest refuse. (2)
Season
mostly: Mar-Nov (BG & GBIF data)
Works Cited
1.Learn About ... Texas Insects.
Chris Durden. 1999. Texas Parks & Wildlife Press, Austin. 60 pp. 1999. University of Texas Press.
2.The Texas leaf-cutting ant and its control.
Walter et al. 1938. USDA Circular No. 494: 1-18.