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
[Illustration: FIG. 3.--Protozoa from the gut of the wood-feeding
cockroach _Cryptocercus punctulatus_. A, _Eucomonympha imla_, female
above, male below, c. × 375. (From Cleveland [1950c].) B,
_Barbulanympha_ sp. (From Cleveland [1953].) C, _Urinympha talea_,
c. × 712. (From Cleveland [1951a].) D, _Rhynchonympha tarda_,
c. × 450. (From Cleveland [1952].) E, _Trichonympha okolona_ or
_T. algoa_, c. × 390.
(From Cleveland [1949].) (All drawings reproduced through the courtesy
of Dr. L. R. Cleveland.)]
=Trichonympha chula= Cleveland et al.
_Natural host._--_Cryptocercus punctulatus_, U.S.A., Appalachian and
Pacific coast areas (Cleveland et al., 1934).
=Trichonympha grandis= Cleveland et al.
_Natural host._--_Cryptocercus punctulatus_, U.S.A., Pacific coast areas
(Cleveland et al., 1934): Fairly abundant in all specimens from Pacific
area.
=Trichonympha lata= Cleveland et al.
_Natural host._--_Cryptocercus punctulatus_, U.S.A., Appalachian and
Pacific coast areas (Cleveland et al., 1934).
=Trichonympha okolona= Cleveland et al.
(Fig. 3, E)
_Natural host._--_Cryptocercus punctulatus_, U.S.A., Appalachian and
Pacific coast areas (Cleveland et al., 1934): Found in only a few
specimens, never abundant.
=Trichonympha parva= Cleveland et al.
_Natural host._--_Cryptocercus punctulatus_, U.S.A., Appalachian and
Pacific coast areas (Cleveland et al., 1934): This organism is smaller
than any known species of _Trichonympha_; it is more resistant to warm
weather than the other hypermastigotes.
Family EUCOMONYMPHIDAE
=Eucomonympha imla= Cleveland et al.
_Natural host._--_Cryptocercus punctulatus_, U.S.A., Appalachian and
Pacific coast areas (Cleveland et al., 1934): Organism (fig. 3, A)
sometimes becomes attached to the intestinal wall; attached individuals
were seen in 2 to 3 percent of the cockroaches examined.
=Unidentified flagellate=
_Natural host._--_Pycnoscelus surinamensis_, Hawaii (Schwabe, 1950): A
small flagellate was found in the digestive tract and malpighian
tubules.
Class SARCODINA
Order MYCETOZOA
INCERTAE SEDIS
=Peltomyces periplanetae= (Léger)
_Synonymy._--_Peltomyces blattellae._ Sprague (1940a) synonymizes
_Peltomyces periplanetae_, with _Coelosporidium periplanetae_.
_Natural hosts._--_Blatta orientalis_, France (Debaisieux, 1927).
_Blattella germanica_, France (Léger, 1909; Debaisieux, 1927).
The organism inhabits the malpighian tubules of cockroaches. Léger and
Debaisieux concluded that their organism was a mycetozoan, but they may
have erred in synonymizing _Plistophora periplanetae_ with the organism
they studied. Debaisieux found intracellular stages of _Peltomyces
periplanetae_ that have not been found in _Plistophora periplanetae_ or
_Coelosporidium periplanetae_.
Order AMOEBINA
Family AMOEBIDAE
=Hartmannella blattae= Ivanić
_Natural host._--_Blatta orientalis_, Yugoslavia (Ivanić, 1937): Found
in the hind gut.
Family ENDAMOEBIDAE
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