Cockroach - Ectobius lucidus

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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea » Ectobiidae » Ectobiinae » Ectobius » Ectobius lucidus

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Copyright © 2010 vireo

Cockroach - Ectobius lucidus -

Barrie, ON CANADA, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
July 11, 2010
Size: 1 cm or less

As you can see the individual of the same specimen is dead now and falling a bit apart: I am not sure I am showing you what you need but I can see some spines on the femur of the first two legs. It appears to be two spines but in the mean time look for a new individual to get a better look.
It also appear that I made a bit of a mess trying to un-link the different individuals as suggested while trying to keep the same ones together. I hope that can be cleaned up without too much difficulty. Thanks again.

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Contributed by vireo on 14 July, 2010 - 7:51pm
Last updated 1 January, 2017 - 1:25pm

Moved

Moved from Dusky Cockroach.

… Alan Jeon, 1 January, 2017 - 1:25pm

Moved

On the right front femur you can clearly see those two ventral spines, indicating Ectobius lapponicus rather than the other two species in this genus, which have 3 spines. Thanks for including this image! I've added a thumbnail image of this picture on the Ectobius Guide Page.

Moved from Ectobius.

… John Carlson, 15 July, 2010 - 10:21am

Thank you.

Thanks a lot for your helping to narrow this one down the species. Interesting and I learned something new. FYI: I used a Pentax Optio Wpi 6M which is a point and shoot model but it has a manual focus macro mode for these close up shoots.

… vireo, 15 July, 2010 - 8:20pm

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