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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blattoidea » Blattidae » Blattinae » Periplaneta » American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana)
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Periplaneta americana - female
Copyright © 2011 Kyle Kandilian

Periplaneta americana - Female
Dearborn, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Female raised from some nymphs found in a bag of cypress mulch. I am tempted to say subadult but the wingpads just aren't convincing me. It took two years at optimum temperatures for this individual to grow to this size.

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Periplaneta americana - female Periplaneta americana - female
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Contributed by Kyle Kandilian on 23 May, 2011 - 12:43am
Last updated 22 June, 2014 - 7:57pm

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