The Biotic Associations of CockroachesRoth, Louis M. (Louis Marcus)
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The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches
Roth, Louis M. (Louis Marcus)
Cockroaches; Insects -- Ecology
Oöthecae of _Periplaneta americana_, U.S.A., Pennsylvania (Roth and
Willis, unpublished data, 1952): Inside oöthecae. Determination by Miss
Mary Downing.
* =Aspergillus fumigatus= Fresenius
_Natural vector._--_Blatta orientalis_, France (Sartory and Clerc,
1908): From intestine.
* =Aspergillus niger= van Tieghem
_Natural vector._--_Periplaneta americana_, U.S.A., Texas (McShan in
Roth and Willis, 1957a): From feces.
_Experimental vector._--_Blatta orientalis_, Italy (Cao, 1898): Organism
passed unchanged through the gut of the insects.
=Aspergillus sydowi= (Bainier and Sartory) Thom and Church
_Natural host._--Oötheca of _Eurycotis floridana_, U.S.A., Pennsylvania
(Roth and Willis, unpublished data, 1952): On outer surface.
Determination by Miss Mary Downing.
=Aspergillus tamarii= Kita
_Natural host_.--Oöthecae of _Blattella germanica_, U.S.A., Pennsylvania
(Roth and Willis, unpublished data, 1952): On exterior surface.
Determination by Miss Mary Downing.
=Aspergillus= sp.?
_Natural and experimental vector._--_Blattella germanica_, on shipboard
(Morrell, 1911): Isolated from feces. Experimentally Morrell also showed
that the spores of the fungus could be recovered from feces of
cockroaches that had fed on them.
=Aspergillus= sp.
_Natural vector._--_Periplaneta americana_, England (Bunting, 1956): The
fungus was isolated mostly from imperfectly excreted feces.
=Beauveria bassiana= (Balsamo) Vuillemin
_Experimental host._--_Blattella germanica_ and _Periplaneta americana_,
U.S.A. (Dresner, 1949, 1950): The nymphs of American cockroaches became
infected when they (1) were injected with a 1-percent suspension of
spores, (2) ate rat pellets sprayed with the spore suspension, or (3)
were dusted with the fungus spores. The symptoms of the fungus infection
were paralysis followed by death; some of the infected insects
liquefied, others dried up after the appearance of a subcuticular
blackening.
=Cephalosporium= sp.
_Natural vector._--_Periplaneta americana_, U.S.A., Texas (McShan,
unpublished MS., 1953): From feces of cockroaches collected in the
basement of a grain elevator at the docks in Galveston.
* =Geotrichum candidum= Link
_Experimental vector._--_Blatta orientalis_, Italy (Cao, 1898): Organism
retained its pathogenicity after passing through the insect's gut.
=Penicillium= sp.
_Natural vector._--_Blaberus craniifer_, U.S.A. (Wedberg et al., 1949):
From feces.
_Periplaneta americana_, England (Bunting, 1956): Mostly from
imperfectly excreted feces.
=Metarrhizium anisopliae= (Metschnikoff) Sorokin
_Natural hosts._--_Blattidae_, Seymour (1929); Charles (1941).
_Panesthia australis_, U.S.A., Massachusetts (Roth and Willis,
unpublished data, 1957): Growing on adult specimens that were found dead
in a laboratory colony. Determination by Miss Dorothy Fennell.
_Periplaneta americana_, England (Bunting, 1956): Growing on genitalia
of females where it prevented oöthecal formation.
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