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
_Leucophaea maderae_, New York (Hebard, 1917): Adventive. Dominica (Rehn
and Hebard, 1927): Under banana sheaths. England (Palmer, 1928):
Adventive, captured at railroad station after bananas had been unloaded.
England (Bunting, 1955): Adventive, from Dominica. Trinidad (Princis and
Kevan, 1955): Nymph, eating bananas in cupboard. Puerto Rico (Seín,
1923): Seín stated that bananas are the favorite food of _L. maderae_.
_Litopeltis bispinosa_, Panama Canal Zone (Hebard, 1920): From rotting
banana stalks at bases of leaves.
_Litopeltis musarum_, Costa Rica (Rehn, 1928): Shaken from dead banana
leaves.
_Nauclidas nigra_, England (Bunting, 1955, 1956): Adventive, from
Dominica.
_Nauphoeta flexivitta_, Denmark (Vestergaard, 1958): Adventive.
_Neoblattella carcinus_, _Neoblattella celeripes_, and _Neoblattella
laodamia_, England (Bunting, 1956): Adventive, from Dominica. Bunting
(1955) first reported these as _Neoblattella_ spp. and stated that they
were common.
_Neoblattella detersa_, Jamaica (Rehn and Hebard, 1927): From under the
bracts of banana blossoms. Sweden (Princis, 1947): Adventive.
_Neoblattella detersa_ and _Neoblattella tridens_, Finland (Frey, 1948):
Adventive.
_Neoblattella fratercula_, Nebraska (Hebard, 1916b): Adventive.
_Neoblattella semota_, Jamaica (Rehn and Hebard, 1927): From under
drying bracts of banana blossoms.
_Neoblattella vatia_, Cuba (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
_Neoblattella_ sp., Finland (Princis, 1947): Adventive, from Jamaica.
_Nyctibora azteca_, England (Bunting, 1955): Adventive, from Dominica.
Bunting reported this species as _Nocticola azteca_. Dr. A. B. Gurney
called our attention to the fact that _Nocticola_ is an Old World genus,
presumably combined in error with the New World species _azteca_. The
true identity of the specimen was confirmed by Dr. D. Ragge (personal
communication, 1958), who examined it at the British Museum (Natural
History).
_Nyctibora holoserica_, Canada (Walker, 1912): Adventive.
_Nyctibora laevigata_, Canada, Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania (2)
(Hebard, 1917): Adventive. Taken from banana boat _Annetta_ at
Philadelphia (Rehn and Hebard, 1927). England (Bunting, 1956):
Adventive, from Dominica. Sweden, Denmark (Princis, 1947): Adventive.
_Nyctibora mexicana_(?), Denmark (Henriksen, 1939): Adventive (5), from
Jamaica and West Indies. Princis (1947) suggested that these specimens
were probably the West Indian _Nyctibora noctivaga_, because _N.
mexicana_ is not a West Indian insect.
_Nyctibora noctivaga_, Canada, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska
(4), Virginia (Hebard, 1917): Adventive. Nebraska (Hauke, 1949):
Adventive (2). Panama Canal Zone (Hebard, 1920): From banana stalks.
England (Blair _in_ Turner, 1930): Adventive, from Costa Rica.
Washington (Hatch, 1938): Adventive. Sweden (Princis, 1947): Adventive
(2). Finland (Princis, 1947): Adventive, from Jamaica.
_Nyctibora obscura_, Trinidad (Princis and Kevan, 1955): In banana
bunch.
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