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
Sobolev (1937) found 72 percent of _Blattella germanica_ collected in
Gorkov (U.S.S.R.) infected with _Blatticola blattae_. The mean number of
worms per host was 1.8, the maximum 5. Sondak (1935) found about 30
percent of 788 _B. germanica_ collected in Leningrad to be infected with
_B. blattae_. Groschaft (1956) regularly found only single worms in _B.
germanica_, collected in a laboratory in Prague, except for two females
that contained 2 and 3 worms each.
=Blattophila sphaerolaima= Cobb, 1920
_Synonymy._--_Aorurus sphaerolaima_ (Cobb, 1920) Travassos, 1929.
Although Chitwood (1932) indicated that the taxonomic position of this
nematode is questionable, Chitwood and Chitwood, 1934, apparently
accepted it as a valid species in describing the variety _javanica_.
_Natural host._--_Panesthia laevicollis_ [Cobb recorded the host as
_Panesthia brevicollis_, but no such cockroach exists. Van Zwaluwenburg
(1928) and Caudell (in Chitwood, 1932) believed that Cobb meant
_Panesthia laevicollis_. According to Gurney (personal communication,
1957) Caudell's notes show that in 1933 he wrote to Dr. Chitwood and
explained that he had compared Cobb's figure of the cockroach with
_laevicollis_ Saussure (figures and description) and had found them the
same.] Australia, New South Wales (Cobb, 1920).
=Blattophila sphaerolaima var. javanica= Chitwood and Chitwood, 1934
_Natural host._--_Panesthia angustipennis_, Philippine Islands (Chitwood
and Chitwood, 1934).
=Blattophila supellaima= Basir, 1941
_Natural host._--_Supella supellectilium_, India, Aligarh (Basir, 1941).
=Cephalobellus brevicaudatum= (Leidy, 1851) Christie, 1933
_Synonymy._--_Thelastoma brevicaudatum_ Leidy, 1851 [Christie, 1933].
_Thelastoma indiana_ Basir, 1940 [Basir, 1949].
_Natural host._--_Leucophaea_ sp., India, Aligarh (Basir, 1940, 1949).
=Cephalobellus magalhāesi= (Schwenck, 1926) Basir, 1956
_Synonymy._--_Bulhỡesi magalhāesi_ Schwenck, 1926; _Thelastoma
magalhāesi_ (Schwenck, 1926) Travassos, 1929 [Basir, 1956].
_Natural host._--"Barata selvagem," Brazil, São Paulo (Schwenck, 1926).
=Euryconema paradisa= Chitwood, 1932
_Natural host._--_Eurycotis floridana_, U.S.A., Florida (Chitwood,
1932).
=Galebia aegyptiaca= (Galeb, 1878) Chitwood, 1932
_Synonymy._--_Oxyuris aegyptiaca_ Galeb, 1878; _Blatticola aegyptiaca_
(Galeb, 1878) Schwenck, 1926 [Chitwood, 1932].
_Natural hosts._--_Blattella germanica_, Brazil (Schwenck, 1926).
_Polyphaga aegyptiaca_, Egypt? (Galeb, 1878).
=Hammerschmidtiella diesingi= (Hammerschmidt, 1838) Chitwood, 1932
_Synonymy._--_Anguillula macrura_ Diesing, 1851; _Aorurus diesingi_
(Hammerschmidt, 1838) Travassos, 1929; _Streptostomum gracile_ Leidy,
1850; _Oxyuris diesingi_ Hammerschmidt, 1838; _Oxyuris blattae
orientalis_ Hammerschmidt, 1838 [Chitwood, 1932]. _Oxyuris macrura_ of
Lankester (1865).
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