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
Division EMBRYOPHYTA SIPHONOGAMA
Family PINACEAE
=Pinus australis= Michaux
_Associates._--_Aglaopteryx gemma_ and _Parcoblatta lata_, Alabama
(Hebard, 1917): The former species was common under signs on longleaf
pines, and _P. lata_ was occasional.
_Parcoblatta divisa_, Georgia (Rehn and Hebard, 1916): Under signs.
=Pinus caribaea= Morelet
_Associates._--_Eurycotis floridana_, _Latiblattella rehni_, and
_Parcoblatta fulvescens_, Florida (Hebard, 1917): Many records under
signs on the tree trunks.
=Pinus clausa= Vasey
_Associate._--_Latiblattella rehni_, Florida (Hebard, 1917): Under sign
on tree.
=Pinus echinata= Mill.
_Associates._--_Parcoblatta divisa_, Virginia (Rehn and Hebard, 1916):
Under signs on shortleaf pine.
_Parcoblatta zebra_, Mississippi (Hebard, 1917): Under sign.
=Pinus sylvestris= Linnaeus
_Associate._--_Ectobius pallidus_, England (Milton, 1899; Burr, 1899b):
On Scotch fir.
=Pinus= spp.
_Associates._--_Plectoptera lacerna_ and _Plectoptera vermiculata_, Cuba
(Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
_Latiblattella rehni_, Florida (Rehn and Hebard, 1905): Under signs.
Cuba (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
Family TAXODIACEAE
=Cryptomeria= sp.
_Associate._--_Diploptera punctata_, Hawaii (Pemberton and Williams,
1938; Zimmerman, 1948).
Family CUPRESSACEAE
=Cupressus macrocarpa= Hartweg
_Associate._--_Diploptera punctata_, Hawaii (Hebard, 1922): "The species
is common and injurious in the territory infesting particularly the
Monterey cypress trees ... and doing particular damage by gnawing away
the bark." Similar injury has been cited by Pemberton (1934), Fullaway
and Krauss (1945), and Zimmerman (1948).
=Juniperus= sp.
_Associate._--_Phyllodromica tartara nigrescens_, Southern Uzbekistan
(Bei-Bienko, 1950): Under bark.
Family PANDANACEAE
=Freycinetia= sp.
_Associate._--_Graptoblatta notulata_ and _Kuchinga remota_, Tahiti
(Hebard, 1933).
=Pandanus= sp.
_Associate._--_Hololeptoblatta_ sp., Seychelles (Scott, 1910, 1912).
Family GRAMINEAE
=Aristida pennata= Trin.
_Associate._--_Phyllodromica pygmaea_, U.S.S.R. (Bei-Bienko, 1950):
Found in the dense turf.
=Bamboo=
_Associate._--_Comptolampra liturata_, Malaya (Karny, 1925).
=Chloris gayana= Kunth
_Associate._--_Blattella vaga_, Texas (Riherd, 1953): This field
cockroach was rather abundant in clumps of Rhodes grass.
=Panicum purpurascens= Raddi
_Synonymy._--_Panicum barbinode_ [Hitchcock, 1936].
_Associate._--_Epilampra abdomen-nigrum_, Puerto Rico (Seín, 1923;
Wolcott, 1936): Abundant in "malojillo" meadow.
=Saccharum officinarum= Linnaeus
_Associates._--_Balta quadricaudata_, _Balta scripta_, _Balta
torresiana_, _Balta verticalis_, _Ellipsidion simulans_, and _Megamareta
verticalis_, Australia, Queensland (Hebard, 1943): All collected by J.
F. Illingworth on sugarcane.
_Blattella humbertiana_, _Ischnoptera schenklingi_, and _Pycnoscelus
surinamensis_, Formosa (Box, 1953).
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