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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea » Ectobiidae » Pseudophyllodromiinae » Chorisoneura » Small Yellow Texas Cockroach (Chorisoneura texensis)

Species Chorisoneura texensis - Small Yellow Texas Cockroach

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Blattodea (Cockroaches and Termites)
Superfamily Blaberoidea
Family Ectobiidae
Subfamily Pseudophyllodromiinae
Genus Chorisoneura
Species texensis (Small Yellow Texas Cockroach)
Explanation of Names
Chorisoneura texensis Saussure & Zehntner 1893
Size
7.3-8.4 mm(1)
Range
NC-FL-TX(1)
Habitat
found under dead leaves in oak forest and beaten from foliage of oak and bayberry(1)
Remarks
occasionally taken at light(1)
Works Cited
1.How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies
Jacques R. Helfer. 1962. Wm. C. Brown Company.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 26 December, 2009 - 11:29pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 March, 2018 - 3:39pm

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