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._--Throughout winter and spring they are frequent beneath
leaves and other debris on ground, especially in dry, sandy locations
(Blatchley, 1920). Friauf (1953) found this species under debris, fallen
leaves, leaf mold, or decaying wood in these habitats: Dry, ruderal
grassland (infrequent), scrub (frequent), sandhills (dominant), xeric
hammock (infrequent), mesic hammock (dominant), pond margin
(infrequent), longleaf-pine flatwoods (frequent), bayhead (occasional),
low hammock (frequent), and alluvial hammock (occasional). In the shrub
stratum in these habitats: Scrub (frequent), sandhills (dominant), and
xeric hammock (infrequent). In herbaceous stratum in these habitats:
Sandhills (dominant), mesic hammock (dominant), and black-pine flatwoods
(infrequent). On bare soil or bare sand under vegetation in these
habitats: Sandhills (dominant), pond margin (infrequent), longleaf-pine
flatwoods (frequent), and slash-pine flatwoods (frequent) (Friauf,
1953).
=Cariblatta lutea minima=
_Florida._--Series of specimens captured on Long Key under dead petioles
of coconut palm on moist ground at edges of pools of brackish water.
Specimens from Key West were in dry dead grass under boards (Rehn and
Hebard, 1912). Nymphs frequent under bark on decaying pine logs in pine
woods; occasional in leaf mold in heavy junglelike scrub (Rehn and
Hebard, 1914). In water-soaked leaves in heavy red-mangrove swamp
(Hebard, 1915). Under dead petioles of coconut palm on sandy soil in
grapefruit grove (Hebard, 1916a). Numerous at bases of tufts of coarse
grass growing just back of sea beach (Blatchley, 1920). Friauf (1953)
found this species in leaf duff, leaf mold, debris, or decaying wood in
these habitats: Dry, ruderal grassland (occasional), scrub (infrequent),
sandhills (infrequent), mesic hammock (infrequent), pond margin
(occasional), longleaf-pine flatwoods (occasional), and low hammock
(infrequent). On bare soil or bare sand under vegetation in these
habitats: Longleaf-pine flatwoods (occasional) and slash-pine flatwoods
(occasional). Dominant in the spartina marsh habitat in the grass
stratum and duff around clumps. Frequent in the saw-grass marsh habitat
in the grass stratum and, during the dry season, in decaying vegetation
on the marsh floor.
=Cariblatta nebulicola=
_Jamaica._--Adults in dead leaf litter alongside the trail in dense
forest of tree ferns, _Podocarpus_, _Cyrilla_, and other trees; the
forest was bathed in fog much of the time (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
=Cariblatta reticulosa=
_Jamaica._--In leaves on leaf mold in hillside forest (Hebard, 1916a).
Moderately numerous in leaf litter in mangrove swamp; in decaying
herbage (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
=Cariblatta stenophrys=
_Puerto Rico._--Between the leaves and under the leaf sheaths of corn
(Sein, 1923; Wolcott, 1936).
=Cariblatta= spp.
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