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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea » Ectobiidae » Blattellinae » Blattella » Asian Cockroach (Blattella asahinai)
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BG2896 E7480 - Blattella asahinai
Copyright © 2010 Gayle and Jeanell Strickland

BG2896 E7480 - Blattella asahinai
Baton Rouge, Brookhollow Drive, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
December 12, 2009
Size: Body length 10.3 mm.
This cockroach is a reasonable match for Blattella asahinai.
The length to wingtip is 13.3 mm.
Proper placement would be appreciated.
Gayle

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Contributed by Gayle and Jeanell Strickland on 6 April, 2010 - 9:02pm
Last updated 20 June, 2010 - 8:26pm

Moved
Moved based on a conversation with Gayle in which he said that while it was found indoors, it was a flying roach. The Germans are flightless, so this is an Asian cockroach. It is good to finally have a record from Louisiana- I knew that they must be here. Moved from Blattella.
… John Carlson, 20 June, 2010 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cockroaches and Termites.
… John Carlson, 17 May, 2010 - 12:07am login or register to post comments

Tough call
This is a tough call for me. If it was captured outdoors, it is almost certainly Blattella asahinai, the Asian cockroach as the German cockroaches are not able to survive outdoors for long. If it was found indoors, it is much more likely to be the German cockroach. To my knowledge, the Asian cockroach has not been documented in Louisiana, but this is certainly because nobody has looked closely enough for the morphologically similar (but behaviorally distinct) Asian cockroaches, as they have been transported throughout the Gulf South, presumably along I-10.
… John Carlson, 9 April, 2010 - 12:33am login or register to post comments

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