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
_Experimental hosts._--_Blatta orientalis_, _Blattella germanica_,
_Parcoblatta pensylvanica_, _Parcoblatta virginica_, _Periplaneta
americana_, and _Supella supellectilium_, U.S.A. (Oswald, 1958): The
larvae underwent normal development in all species of cockroaches except
_B. orientalis_ and _P. americana_ in which cysts developed that
contained a reddish-brown pigment; larvae in such cysts were dead or
dying. Eggs of _R. coloradensis_ hatched in the midgut of _B. germanica_
and first-stage larvae entered the hindgut epithelium within 24 hours.
The larvae underwent two molts within a cyst formed by tissues of the
host's gut, the second molt occurring during the twelfth or thirteenth
day. In _Parcoblatta_, cysts were found free in the body cavity as well
as attached to the hindgut. In _B. germanica_ and _S. supellectilium_
the cysts remained attached to the hindgut. Usually over 20 cysts
developed in each infected _Parcoblatta_; fewer than 10 per insect
developed in the other species. Larvae became infective to the
definitive host, the white-footed mouse [_Peromyscus leucopus
noveboracensis_ (Fischer)], as early as the tenth day.
Family SPIRURIDAE
* =Agamospirura parahormeticae= Pessôa and Corrêa, 1929
_Natural host._--_Parahormetica bilobata_, Brazil (Pessôa and Corrêa,
1929).
* =Gongylonema ingluvicola= Ransom, 1904
_Experimental host._--_Blattella germanica_, U.S.A. (Cram, 1935).
* =Gongylonema neoplasticum= (Fibiger and Ditlevsen, 1914) Ransom and
Hall, 1916
_Natural hosts._--_Blatta orientalis_, Netherlands (Baylis, 1925).
_Blattella germanica_, U.S.A. (Hitchcock and Bell, 1952).
_Periplaneta americana_, Denmark and St. Croix (Fibiger, 1913, 1913a;
Fibiger and Ditlevsen, 1914); Netherlands (Baylis, 1925); Argentina
(Bacigalupo, 1930); England (Leiper, 1926); South Africa (Porter, 1930);
U.S.A. (Hitchcock and Bell, 1952); Formosa (Yokagawa, 1924, 1925,
1925a).
_Periplaneta australasiae_, Formosa (Yokagawa, 1924, 1925, 1925a).
_Experimental hosts._--_Blattella germanica_, Denmark (Fibiger and
Ditlevsen, 1914); U.S.A. (Hitchcock and Bell, 1952); France (Brumpt,
1949).
_Blatta orientalis_, Denmark (Fibiger and Ditlevsen, 1914).
_Periplaneta americana_, Denmark and St. Croix (Fibiger, 1913; Fibiger
and Ditlevsen, 1914); U.S.A. (Hitchcock and Bell, 1952).
* =Gongylonema pulchrum= Molin, 1857
_Experimental hosts._--_Blattella germanica_, U.S.A. (Ransom and Hall,
1915, 1916, 1917; Stiles and Baker, 1927; Schwartz and Lucker, 1931;
Lucker, 1932; Alicata, 1934a, 1935); Europe (Baylis et al., 1925, 1926,
1926a; Sambon, 1926).
_Parcoblatta_ sp., Alicata (1934, 1935).
* =Gongylonema= sp.
_Natural host._--_Periplaneta americana_, Brazil (Magalhães, 1900);
Algeria (Seurat, 1916); England? (Leiper, 1926).
* =Microtetrameres helix= Cram, 1927
_Experimental host._--_Blattella germanica_, U.S.A. (Cram, 1934).
* =Protospirura bonnei= Ortlepp, 1924
_Natural host._--_Leucophaea maderae_, Venezuela (Brumpt, 1931).
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