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
_Natural prey._--_Blattella germanica_, France (Brumpt and Urbain,
1938): See comment under _Lemur coronatus_.
Cockroaches, on board ship (Neill, 1829; also cited by Samouelle, 1841,
and Cowan, 1865): "It was quite amusing to see it at its meal. When he
had got hold of one of the largest cockroaches, he held it in his fore
paws, and then invariably nipped the head off first; he then pulled out
the viscera and cast them aside, and devoured the rest of the body,
rejecting the dry elytra and wings, and also the legs of the insect,
which are covered with short stiff bristles. The smaller cockroaches he
eat[s] without such fastidious nicety."
=Leontocebus oedipus= (Linnaeus)
_Natural prey._--_Blattella germanica_, France (Brumpt and Urbain,
1938): See comment under _Callithrix chrysoleucos_.
=Leontocebus rosalia= (Linnaeus)
_Synonymy._--_Midas rosalia_ [Simpson, 1945].
_Natural prey._--_Blattella germanica_, France (Brumpt and Urbain,
1938): See comments under _Lemur coronatus_ and _Callithrix
chrysoleucos_.
=Leontocebus ursulus= (E. Geoffroy)
_Natural prey._--_Blattella germanica_, France (Brumpt and Urbain,
1938): See comments under _Callithrix chrysoleucos_.
Family CERCOPITHECIDAE
=Cercopithecus= sp.
_Experimental prey._--Cockroaches, East Africa (Carpenter, 1921, 1925):
The monkey rarely tasted and usually ignored cockroaches offered to it.
In one experiment the monkey had to be deprived of food before it would
eat the cockroach.
=Macaca mulatta= (Zimmermann)
_Synonymy._--_Macaca rhesus_ [Johnson, personal communication, 1957].
_Experimental prey._--_Blattella germanica_, France (Brumpt and Urbain,
1938, 1938a): The macaque was fed cockroaches infested with
_Prosthenorchis elegans_ and _P. spirula_.
=Macaca sylvanus= (Linnaeus)
_Synonymy._--_Inuus sylvanus_ [Simpson, 1945].
_Common name._--Macaque.
_Natural prey._--_Blattella germanica_, France (Brumpt and Urbain,
1938): See comment under _Lemur coronatus_.
=Papio papio= (Desmarest)
_Experimental prey._--_Blattella germanica_, France (Brumpt and Urbain,
1938, 1938a): This baboon was fed cockroaches infested with
_Prosthenorchis elegans_ and _P. spirula_.
Family PONGIDAE
=Pan= sp.
_Common name._--Chimpanzee.
_Natural prey._--_Blattella germanica_, Netherlands (Thiel and Wiegand
Bruss, 1946): Indirect evidence for this relationship was shown by these
workers who found two animals heavily infected with _Prosthenorchis
spirula_ in a zoo in Rotterdam; the intermediate host of the worm was
shown to be _B. germanica_.
Family HOMINIDAE
=Homo sapiens= Linnaeus
_Natural prey._--Oöthecae of _Blatta orientalis_ and _Neostylopyga
rhombifolia_, Thailand (Bristowe, 1932).
_Periplaneta americana_, Formosa (Takahashi, 1924).
_Periplaneta americana_ and _Periplaneta australasiae_, Australia,
China, and Japan (Bodenheimer, 1951).
Cockroaches, Annam and French Guinea (Brygoo, 1946).
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