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
_Natural hosts._--_Diploptera punctata_, Ascension Island (Thaxter,
1902, 1908): On antennae. This species also was infected experimentally
(Richards and Smith, 1954).
Cockroach, Fiji (Thaxter, 1931).
=Herpomyces ectobiae= Thaxter
_Natural hosts._--_Blattella germanica_, U.S.A., Massachusetts (Thaxter,
1902, 1908); Burma, Tenasserim (Spegazzini, 1915); Argentina, Buenos
Aires (Spegazzini, 1917): On antennae. U.S.A., Minnesota (Richards and
Smith, 1955): Scattered over entire body, wings. France? (Picard, 1913):
On tibial spines. Chile and Philippine Islands (Thaxter, 1931).
"_Ectobia_" spp., Zanzibar and Saint Kitts, B.W.I. (Thaxter, 1902,
1908): Possibly on species that are now in the genus _Blattella_ rather
than in the genus _Ectobius_ as it is known today, because Thaxter also
used the synonym _Ectobia germanica_ for the German cockroach,
_Blattella germanica_.
_Experimental hosts._--_Blattella germanica_ and _Blattella vaga_,
U.S.A. (Richards and Smith, 1954).
=Herpomyces forficularis= Thaxter
_Natural hosts._--Cockroaches, Mauritius? and Fiji (Thaxter, 1902, 1908,
1931): On antennae.
=Herpomyces gracilis= Thaxter
_Natural host._--_Blattella humbertiana_, Philippine Islands, Luzon
(Thaxter, 1931): On antennae.
=Herpomyces grenadinus= Thaxter
_Natural host._--Cockroach, Grenada, B.W.I. (Thaxter, 1931): On antennae
of a "brown wingless blattid."
=Herpomyces leurolestis= Thaxter
_Natural host._--_Leurolestes pallidus_, British Guiana and Trinidad
(Thaxter, 1931): On antennae.
=Herpomyces lobopterae= Thaxter
_Natural host._--_Loboptera_ sp., Argentina (Thaxter, 1931): On
antennae.
=Herpomyces macropus= Spegazzini
_Natural host._--_Blaberus_ sp.?, Argentina (Spegazzini, 1917).
Cockroaches, Peru, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and Haiti (Spegazzini, 1915,
1917): Material previously assigned by Spegazzini (1915) to _H.
paranensis_ was also placed by him in this new species. However, Thaxter
(1931) believed that _H. macropus_ may be synonymous with _H.
paranensis_, but he provisionally retained _H. macropus_ because he had
not seen Spegazzini's material.
=Herpomyces nyctoborae= Thaxter
_Natural hosts._--_Nyctibora tomentosa_, U.S.A., Texas (Thaxter, 1905,
1908): On antennae. This cockroach is not established in Texas, and the
specimen may have been misidentified (Gurney, personal communication,
1958).
_Nyctibora_ sp., Argentina (Spegazzini, 1917): On antennae.
=Herpomyces panchlorae= Thaxter
_Natural hosts._--_Panchlora nivea_, Trinidad (Thaxter, 1931): On
antennae.
=Herpomyces panesthiae= Thaxter
_Natural host._--_Panesthia lobipennis_, Ceylon (Thaxter, 1915): On
antennae.
=Herpomyces paranensis= Thaxter
_Natural hosts._--_Blaberus_ sp.? Brazil (Thaxter, 1902, 1908): On
antennae.
_Blaberus_ sp., Brazil and Argentina (Spegazzini, 1917): On antennae.
Cockroaches, Trinidad and Argentina (Thaxter, 1931).
=Herpomyces periplanetae= Thaxter
_Natural hosts._--_Blaberus_ sp.?, Argentina (Spegazzini, 1917).
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