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
_Periplaneta americana_, Japan (Yamaguti and Miyata, 1942); France
(Brumpt, 1949); Madras (Sita, 1949).
Phylum ASCHELMINTHES
Class NEMATODA
Order OXYUROIDEA
Family SUBULURIDAE
* =Subulura jacchi= (Diesing, 1861) Railliet and Henry, 1914
_Synonymy._--_Subulura jacchi_ (Marcel, 1857) [Dr. J. T. Lucker,
personal communication, 1957].
_Experimental host._--_Blaberus atropos_, France (Chabaud and Larivière,
1955).
Order SPIRUROIDEA
Family THELAZIIDAE
* =Oxyspirura mansoni= (Cobbold, 1879) Ransom, 1904
_Natural hosts._--_Pycnoscelus surinamensis_, Australia (Fielding, 1926,
1927, 1928, 1928a); U.S.A. (Sanders, 1927, 1928, 1929; Shealy, 1927);
Formosa (Kobayashi, 1927); Antigua (Hutson, 1938, 1943); Hawaii
(Illingworth, 1931; Schwabe, 1950, 1950a, 1950b, 1951); New Caledonia
(Rageau, 1956).
We have recently found (Roth and Willis, 1960) that two strains of
_Pycnoscelus surinamensis_ exist; a parthenogenetic strain (from
Florida), and a bisexual strain (from Hawaii) which does not reproduce
parthenogenetically. The parthenogenetic strain is undoubtedly the form
that has been shown to be the host of _O. mansoni_ in the United States
and Antigua, because only this form is found in the New World. Probably
the parthenogenetic strain was the form involved in most Pacific areas.
However, from internal evidence in his papers, we concluded that
Schwabe, in Hawaii, may well have been working with the bisexual strain
and possibly also with the parthenogenetic strain; if this is true, then
both parthenogenetic and bisexual strains of _Pycnoscelus surinamensis_
may serve as intermediate hosts of the eyeworm.
_Experimental hosts._--_Periplaneta americana_, Antigua (Hutson, 1943).
_Pycnoscelus surinamensis_, U.S.A. (Sanders, 1929); Australia (Fielding,
1927, 1928a); Hawaii (Schwabe, 1951).
=Rictularia coloradensis= Hall, 1916
_Natural hosts._--_Parcoblatta pensylvanica_ and _Parcoblatta
virginica_, U.S.A., Ohio (Oswald, 1958): Of 49 wood roaches collected,
one of each species contained a single larva each.
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