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
In the following classification we have accepted the conclusions of
Kirby (1945), Kudo (1954), and others that species of _Endamoeba_ are
generically different from species of _Entamoeba_ and that the latter
genus is not a homonym of _Endamoeba._
=Dobellina= sp.
_Natural vectors._--_Blattella germanica_ and/or _Periplaneta
americana_, Egypt (DeCoursey and Otto, 1956, 1957): Thirty out of 261
cockroaches examined contained this protozoan.
=Endamoeba blattae= (Bütschli)
_Synonymy._--_Amoeba blattae_, _Entamoeba blattae_, _Entamoeba
blattarum_.
_Natural hosts._--_Blatta orientalis_, Germany (Bütschli, 1878;
Schubotz, 1905; Chen, 1933); U.S.A. (Leidy, 1879a, 1880; Kudo, 1922,
1925a, 1926a; Kirby, 1927; McAdow, 1931; Meglitsch, 1938, 1940); France
(Mercier, 1907a, 1908, 1909, 1910); Europe? (Janicki, 1908, 1909);
U.S.S.R. (Yakimov and Miller, 1922; Zasukhin, 1929, 1930); England
(Thomson and Lucas, 1926; Lucas, 1927, 1927a, 1928); Yugoslavia (Ivanić,
1926a).
_Blattella germanica_ and/or _Periplaneta americana_, South Africa
(Porter, 1930); Egypt (DeCoursey and Otto, 1956, 1957): Seven out of 217
cockroaches examined harbored the protozoan.
_Periplaneta americana_, Philippine Islands (Hegner and Chu, 1930);
U.S.A. (Morris, 1936; Armer, 1944); Gold Coast Colony (Macfie, 1922).
_Periplaneta australasiae_, U.S.A. (Morris, 1936).
Cockroaches, Paraguay? (Elmassian, 1909); Austria (Bělǎr, 1916); U.S.A.
(Morris, 1935, 1936; Balch, 1932); Venezuela (Tejera, 1926).
The habitat of _E. blattae_ (fig. 2, C) is the hind intestine and rectum
of the cockroach. The incidence of infection varies: Kudo (1925a) found
in 1,255 oriental cockroaches infections in 5 percent in March and 50
percent in the summer; Schubotz (1905) found 5 to 20 percent of the
examined cockroaches to be infested; Yakimov and Miller (1922) found 4
percent of 124 oriental cockroaches infested; Zasukhin (1930) found up
to 50 percent of over 3,000 _B. orientalis_ infested; Meglitsch (1938,
1940) found almost 100 percent infection in _B. orientalis_ kept in a
crowded culture for several weeks. Chen (1933) developed two synthetic
media in which _E. blattae_ could be grown for 45 to 50 days.
Mercier (1907a) observed a fungus, _Nucleophaga_ sp., hyperparasitic in
the nucleus of _Endamoeba blattae_.
=Endamoeba javanica= Kidder
_Natural hosts._--_Panesthia angustipennis_, Philippine Islands, and
_Panesthia spadica_, Japan (Kidder, 1937): Occurred in 50 percent of _P.
angustipennis_ examined and in one of four _P. spadica_. The endoplasm
of this amoeba contains large amounts of wood and cellulose fibers.
=Endamoeba philippinensis= Kidder
_Natural host._--_Panesthia angustipennis_, Philippine Islands (Kidder,
1937): Occurred in about 10 percent of the _Panesthia_ examined. The
food vacuoles contained bacteria, no wood.
=Entamoeba coli= (Grassi)
_Synonymy._--_Endamoeba coli_, _Amoeba coli_ [Kirby, 1945].
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