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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blattoidea » Brown-hooded Cockroaches (Cryptocercidae) » Cryptocercus » Cryptocercus garciai
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Brown-hooded Cockroach - Cryptocercus garciai
Copyright © 2004 Troy Bartlett

Brown-hooded Cockroach - Cryptocercus garciai
Chattahoochee Nat'l Rec Area, Palisades, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
March 26, 2004
I was surprised to find a colony of these cockroaches in a rotting log very near downtown Atlanta. They normally occur at higher elevations (Appalachia) and I believe this must be at the very limit or maybe even an extension of their range.

Note the leg which appears well adapted for their fossorial lifestyle.
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Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 5 April, 2004 - 11:55pm
Last updated 21 July, 2017 - 8:43pm

Moved tentatively based on location: the only sp. known in GA
Moved from Brown-hooded Cockroach.
… v belov, 13 December, 2012 - 7:02am login or register to post comments

WOW
when I saw the top one I thought it was a madagascar hissing cockroach
… Ericah, 25 September, 2007 - 1:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Relation ship
It IS interesting just how similar they look to Madagascan Hissers!
I wonder what their relationship to one another is. I know that there are only 7 species of wood-eating roaches alive (an old group, it's seems as though their glory days have come & gone) & they're only found in North America & northern Asia (like China), but as for how close they are, I don't know.
It's probably convergence. :/
… Jonas Insinga, 20 February, 2008 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

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