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
_Florida._--Male on ground under leaves of cabbage palmetto (Blatchley,
1920). Females in sand under boards and debris along lake shore (Friauf
_in_ Cantrall, 1941). Infrequent on bare soil and ground under
vegetation in the longleaf-pine flatwoods habitat (Friauf, 1953). In
rodent burrow (Young, 1949).
=Arenivaga grata=
_Texas._--Under stones in upper canyon; under rocks in pine-oak forest;
from oak-manzanita forest along dry stream bed (Hebard, 1943a).
=Aristiger histrio=
_Malaya._--Lives freely on bushes and flowers of _Passiflora_ sp.
(Karny, 1924).
=Aspiduchus boriquen=
_Puerto Rico._--"Apparently the species [as _deplanatus_] is locally
numerous in suitable locations, such as caves, rock crevices and the
shelter of large stones." (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
=Audreia bromeliadarum=
_Panama._--Perfectly at home in bromeliads (see p. 31) (Caudell, 1914).
=Audreia jamaicana=
_Jamaica._--In bromeliads; under dead wood in dense forest (Rehn and
Hebard, 1927).
=Balta godeffroyi=
_Australia._--Under bark (Hebard, 1943).
=Balta quadricaudata=
_Australia._--From sugarcane (Hebard, 1943).
=Balta scripta=
_Australia, Queensland._--On leaves, grass, and sugarcane (Hebard,
1943).
=Balta torresiana=
_Australia._--From leaves, under bark, from sugarcane (Hebard, 1943).
=Balta verticalis=
_Australia._--In leaves, from tree, from sugarcane (Hebard, 1943).
=Blaberus atropus=
_Trinidad._--Female in rotting log (Princis and Kevan, 1955).
=Blaberus discoidalis=
_Jamaica._--Under dead coconut petioles in open spot. Gundlach found it
under stones in a field in Cuba (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
=Blaberus giganteus=
_Trinidad._--Nymph in rotten palm tree (Princis and Kevan, 1955).
=Blaberus= spp.
_Venezuela._--Only taken in the forests of the Orinoco near the trunks
of rotten trees at night (Doumerc _in_ Blanchard, 1837).
_Panama._--Among dead leaves and debris on floor of rain forest (E. C.
Williams, Jr., 1941).
=Blatta lateralis=
_U.S.S.R._--Found among rocks at 2,000 or more meters elevation. It is
found in cultivated areas as well as in mountainous landscapes and in
semideserts (Bei-Bienko, 1950).
=Blatta orientalis=
_Great Britain._--One female nymph under bark of tree 10 feet above the
ground (Burr, 1900). Swarming within a rubbish heap in February (Lucas,
1912). In refuse tip under old sacks and sheets of linoleum (Hallett
_in_ Lucas, 1922). Male under bark of oak far from houses (Donisthorpe,
1918). One adult female and nymph in prone dead elm 50 yards from house
(Burr, 1937). An immature male at the roots of _Ballota nigra_ (Buck
_in_ Gardner, 1954). Four additional records of this species outdoors
away from houses (Lucas, 1920).
_Southern Crimea._--Under stones, dead leaves, and detritus in small
copses of _Quercus pubescens_, _Carpinus orientalis_, _Cornus mas_,
_Paliurus aculeatus_, and _Dictamnus fraxinella_; 19 specimens,
apparently breeding outdoors (Adelung, 1907).
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