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
Cockroach, a small outdoor species, Trinidad (Myers, 1931).
=Nasua= sp.
_Natural prey._--Cockroaches, British Guiana (Beebe, 1925a).
Family MUSTELIDAE
=Meles= sp.
_Experimental prey._--_Blattella germanica_, France (Brumpt and Urbain,
1938a): A badger was successfully infected when fed cockroaches infested
with _Prosthenorchis elegans_ and _P. spirula_.
Family VIVERRIDAE
=Herpestes javanicus auropunctatus= Hodgson
_Natural prey._--_Epilampra wheeleri_, _Eurycotis improcera_, _Panchlora
nivea_, _Pycnoscelus surinamensis_, and others unidentified to species,
St. Croix and Puerto Rico (Wolcott, 1953): Based on 37 or more
cockroaches obtained from stomachs of 42 mongooses collected in St.
Croix (by Seaman) and 56 collected in Puerto Rico (by Pimentel).
Pimentel (personal communication, 1958) has given us the following
percentage occurrence of cockroach species in the total number of
mongoose stomachs that he examined in Puerto Rico: _Epilampra wheeleri_
1.8, _Ischnoptera rufa rufa_ 3.6, _Panchlora nivea_ 1.8, _Periplaneta
americana_ 1.8, and _Pycnoscelus surinamensis_ 19.6.
=Herpestes= sp.
_Natural prey._--_Periplaneta americana_ and _Periplaneta australasiae_,
Hawaii (Perkins, 1913): Large numbers of these cockroaches are devoured.
Cockroach, East Africa (Loveridge, 1923): Cockroach remains found in
stomach of mongoose.
Family FELIDAE
=Felis catus= Linnaeus
_Natural prey._--_Periplaneta americana_, Hawaii (Williams et al.,
1931).
Cockroaches, U.S.A., Arizona (Stahnke, personal communication, 1953).
_Experimental prey._--_Blattella germanica_, U.S.A. (Hobmaier, 1941):
Cats were fed cockroaches infested with _Physaloptera maxillaris_.
U.S.A. (Petri and Ameel, 1950): Cockroaches infested with _Physaloptera
rara_ were fed to a kitten. France (Brumpt and Urbain, 1938a): A young
cat was fed cockroaches infested with _Prosthenorchis elegans_ and _P.
spirula_.
=Felis pardalis mearnsi= J. A. Allen
_Natural prey._--Cockroaches, Panama (Dr. H. L. Sweetman, personal
communication, 1958): An ocelot was seen collecting and feeding on
cockroaches, possibly _Blaberus_ sp. "The ocelot was quite efficient and
seemed to relish the roaches."
XIV. CHECKLIST OF COCKROACHES AND SYMBIOTIC ASSOCIATES
Only naturally occurring associations are included in this list.
Commensal cockroaches are listed on page 315. Bacteroids are not listed
because they undoubtedly occur in all species. The higher plants were
excluded because most of the associations may be too casual to
constitute symbiosis; however, many of the plant associations were
included in the chapter on ecology. The cockroaches and the associates
within each category are arranged alphabetically by genus and species.
Page references are to citations in the classified sections where
details of the associations and/or sources of the records are given.
=Aglaopteryx facies=
Mite: Undetermined, p. 220.
Reptile: _Anolis stratulus_, p. 274.
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