The Biotic Associations of CockroachesRoth, Louis M. (Louis Marcus)
Science
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches
Roth, Louis M. (Louis Marcus)
Cockroaches; Insects -- Ecology
_Nyctibora sericea_, Canada (Stevenson, 1905; Walker, 1912): Adventive;
Hebard (1917) synonymized Walker's specimen under _N. laevigata_. Isle
of Wight (Meade-Waldo, 1910): Adventive, from Jamaica. England (Tulloch,
1939): Adventive, in banana crates from Brazil.
_Nyctibora_ sp., England (Welch, 1935): Adventive, in railway truck that
had carried bananas. England (Tulloch, 1939): Adventive, from Brazil.
_Oxyhaloa deusta_, U.S.S.R., Leningrad (Bei-Bienko, 1947): Adventive,
from Colombia.
_Panchlora antillarum_, England (Bunting, 1955): Adventive, from
Dominica.
_Panchlora exoleta_, Scotland (Distant, 1902): Adventive. Great Britain
(Shaw, 1902): Adventive. England (Coney, 1918): Adventive. Sweden,
Norway (Princis, 1947): Adventive, Norwegian specimen from Brazil.
Germany (Zacher, 1917): Adventive, from Jamaica.
_Panchlora nivea_, Colorado, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York (2), Utah
(Hebard, 1917): Adventive. Nebraska (Hauke, 1949): Adventive. Washington
(Hatch, 1938): Adventive. Massachusetts (Roth and Willis, 1958):
Adventive. England (Bunting, 1955): Adventive, from Dominica. U.S.S.R.
(Bei-Bienko, 1947): Adventive, from Colombia. Sweden (13), Norway (3),
Finland (3) (Princis, 1947): Adventive, mostly females; origin (where
known) Jamaica.
_Panchlora fraterna_(?) and _Panchlora peruana_(?), Denmark (Henriksen,
1939): Adventive; origin (where known) Danish West Indies and Jamaica;
Princis (1947) suggested that both species were probably _Panchlora
nivea_.
_Panchlora sagax_, Puerto Rico (Wolcott, 1936).
_Panchlora virescens_, Canada (Walker, 1912): Adventive; this was
probably _P. nivea_ as we now know it (Gurney, personal communication,
1959).
_Panchlora_ sp., Canada (Walker, 1912): Adventive. England (Tulloch,
1939): Adventive, from Brazil.
_Pelmatosilpha coriacea_, Puerto Rico (Wolcott, 1936).
_Pelmatosilpha marginalis_ and _Pelmatosilpha purpurascens_, England
(Bunting, 1955, 1956): Adventive, from Dominica; both species common.
_Pelmatosilpha vagabunda_, New Zealand (Princis, 1954): Adventive,
probably from South America.
_Periplaneta americana_, Belgium (Schepdael, 1931): Adventive, on
bananas from the American Tropics.
_Periplaneta americana_ and _Periplaneta brunnea_, England (Bunting,
1955, 1956): Adventive, from Dominica.
_Periplaneta americana_ and _Periplaneta australasiae_, England (Watson,
1907): Adventive; they ate ripening bananas in the tropical plant house
of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where they hid in "the sheathing
bases of palm, banana and pandanus leaves." Sweden (Princis, 1947):
Adventive.
_Periplaneta australasiae_, Canada (Walker, 1912): Adventive. Denmark
(Henriksen, 1939): Adventive (9); origin mostly Jamaica. England
(Tulloch, 1939): Adventive, from Brazil. England (Bunting, 1955, 1956):
Adventive, from Dominica; common.
_Platyzosteria bifida_, Nebraska (Hebard, 1917): Adventive.
_Plectoptera dorsalis_, Puerto Rico (Rehn and Hebard, 1927): Captured by
beating banana plants.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account