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
Cockroaches, Australia (E. F. Riek, personal communication, 1955):
Reared from some of the larger species.
Family MUSCIDAE
=Coenosia basalis= Stein
_Host._--Eggs of _Parcoblatta_ sp., Ohio (Edmunds, 1952a).
Family SARCOPHAGIDAE
=Sarcophaga omani= Hall
_Host._--_Arenivaga bolliana_, Texas (Wirth, personal communication,
1953): Specimens in U.S. National Museum.
=Sarcophaga lambens= Wied.
_Synonymy._--_Sarcophaga sternodontis_ (Towns.).
Hoffman (1927) claimed that approximately 40 percent of some specimens
of _Pycnoscelus surinamensis_ collected in southern Haiti were
parasitized by _S. lambens_. However, according to entomologists at the
University of Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station, Hoffman was
incorrect in his observations: _S. lambens_ was never reared from a
living insect and had been recovered only from dead cockroaches and
other dead insects and was considered saprophytic rather than parasitic
(Schwabe, 1950b).
=Sarcophaga= spp.
Sanjean (1957) reared various species of sarcophagid larvae on
_Periplaneta americana_ which were freshly killed or chopped up; first
instar larvae were also introduced into the body cavity of cockroaches
which had their heads and legs removed. Adult sarcophagids were
collected and freshly killed American cockroaches used as bait.
Order COLEOPTERA
Family CARABIDAE
=Harpalus pennsylvanicus= De Geer
_Experimental prey._--_Cryptocercus punctulatus_, U.S.A. (Cleveland et
al., 1934): This beetle is often found in the galleries of _C.
punctulatus_ in nature. In the laboratory it killed and devoured
cockroaches as large as itself.
Family DYTISCIDAE
=Rhantus pacificus= Boisduval
_Experimental prey._--Cockroaches, disabled, Hawaii (Williams, 1936):
This beetle, which is common in mountain streams, located wounded
cockroaches in an aquarium by sense of smell or taste rather than sight.
Family LAMPYRIDAE
=Undetermined larva=
_Experimental prey._--_Parcoblatta virginica_, adult female (pl. 33, C),
U.S.A. (Roth and Willis, unpublished data, 1953).
Family RIPIPHORIDAE[5]
=Neonephrites partiniger= Riek
_Natural host._--Cockroach (undescribed genus belonging to the
Pseudomopinae), Australia Capital Territory (Riek, 1955).
=Neorhipidius neoxenus= Riek
_Natural host._--_Robshelfordia longiuscula_ or _Robshelfordia
circumducta_, Australia Capital Territory (Riek, 1955).
=Paranephrites xenus= Riek
_Natural host._--_Oniscosoma granicollis_, Australia Capital Territory
(Riek, 1955).
=Rhipidioides ableptus= Riek
_Natural host._--_Balta patula_, Australia, Victoria (Riek, 1955): Pupal
stage lasted only 3 days.
=Rhipidioides adynatus= Riek
_Natural host._--_Escala_ sp. or an undescribed genus of Pseudomopinae,
Australia, Victoria (Riek, 1955).
=Rhipidioides fuscatus= Riek
_Natural host._--_Ellipsidion affine_, Australia, New South Wales (Riek,
1955).
=Rhipidioides helenae= Riek
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