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
_Sarawak, Borneo._--Swarming on walls of caves and in soft bird guano on
the cave floor (Moulton, 1912). Hanitsch (1931) noted that this species
was first recorded by Shelford from a cave in Sarawak and that there is
a series from a cave in the Oxford University Museum, taken by Banks in
1928.
_Malaya._--On the walls of the inner cavern of a cave at Biserat; the
insects covered the walls in places (Chopard, 1919).
_Sumatra._--From Baso cavern, on the west coast (Hebard, 1929).
=Symploce curta=
_South Celebes._--Hanitsch (1932).
=Symploce remyi=
_Tonkin._--This seems to be a true cavernicolous species (Chopard,
1929a; Colani, 1952).
=Tivia macracantha=
_Belgian Congo._--A troglophile without well-marked adaptive characters
(Chopard, 1950a). At Haut-Katanga, troglophile and guanophile (Leleup,
1956).
=Tivia= sp.
_Madagascar._--Last-stage nymphs captured in guano in Antsinomy grotto
(Chopard, 1949a).
=Typhloblatta caeca=
_India, Assam._--An eyeless species with noticeably elongated appendages
(Chopard, 1945).
=Typhloblattodes madecassus=
_Madagascar._--Unpigmented integument and reduced eyes (Chopard, 1945).
=Xestoblatta immaculata=
_Panama._--Found under rocks on guano-covered floor of the Chilibrillo
bat caves (Caudell, 1924).
=Unidentified cockroaches=
_Malaya._--The walls of a cave were covered by dense groups of a species
of "_Blatta_" (Annandale, 1900).
_England._--"The chief insect pests of the mines are cockroaches, which
often swarm in hot mines and those with pit pony stables...." (Hardy,
1941).
COCKROACHES FROM THE BURROWS OF VERTEBRATES
=Arenivaga apacha=
_Arizona._--In the nests of wood rats, _Neotoma_ sp. (Hebard, 1917).
=Arenivaga bolliana=
_Texas._--In the nests of wood rats, _Neotoma_ sp. (Hebard, 1917;
1943a).
=Arenivaga erratica=
_Arizona._--The wingless females were commonly found in burrows of
_Dipodomys spectabilis spectabilis_ Merriam, the kangaroo rat. The
winged males were never found in the burrows (Vorhies and Taylor, 1922).
Found most commonly in wood-rat and ground-squirrel dens in the desert
regions (Ball et al., 1942).
=Arenivaga floridensis=
_Florida._--Found in a burrow of _Peromyscus polionotus rhoadsi_
(Bangs), the white-footed mouse (Young, 1949).
=Arenivaga roseni=
_Turkmen S.S.R._--Occasionally found in burrows of _Rhombomys opimus_
Lichtenstein; in the burrows of the desert turtle, _Testudo horsfieldi_
Gray; and frequently in burrows of the ground squirrel, _Spermophilopsis
leptodactylus_ Lichtenstein (Vlasov, 1933; Vlasov and Miram, 1937).
=Arenivaga tonkawa=
_Texas._--An immature specimen was found in a prairie-dog hole (Hebard,
1943a).
=Cariblatta lutea=
_Florida._--It has been taken in burrows of the pocket gopher, _Geomys_
sp. (Hubbell and Goff, 1940).
=Euthlastoblatta abortiva=
_Texas._--In the nests of wood rats, _Neotoma_ sp. (Hebard, 1917).
=Parcoblatta fulvescens=
_Texas._--In the nests of wood rats, _Neotoma_ sp. (Hebard, 1917).
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