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
_Australia._--By day the insects live under bark, stones, logs, dead
vegetable debris, or buried in loose dust or soil. After sunset females
wander in grass or ascend low objects (Tepper, 1893).
=Ergaula capensis=
_Uganda._--In open bush and short grass (Princis, 1955).
=Eudromiella bicolorata=
_Panama._--Under rubbish on edge of jungle (Hebard, 1920).
=Euphyllodromia liturifera=
_Colombia._--In brushwood (Princis, 1946).
=Eurycotis biolleyi=
_Costa Rica._--Numbers of individuals were found in the large bromeliads
of the temperate localities (Picado, 1913).
=Eurycotis decipiens=
_Trinidad._--In old, rotten coconut stump (Princis and Kevan, 1955).
=Eurycotis dimidiata=
_Cuba._--"This species was recorded from under stones in the fields ...
by Gundlach" (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
=Eurycotis ferrum-equinum=
_Cuba._--Under stones in woods (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
=Eurycotis floridana=
_Florida._--Moderately common under bark of dead pine stumps and logs;
at Key West it fairly swarmed under coquina boulders in the woods (Rehn
and Hebard, 1905). Many specimens under palmetto leaves on ground
(Caudell, 1905). In pine woods under dry bark of dead logs; on Long Key
in dry fibers at the base of the heads of coconut palms; "at Key West,
a large colony was discovered among boards lying on dry grass in a
field, and several were captured upon turning over coquina boulders in
the dense bush" (Rehn and Hebard, 1912). Particularly numerous in tree
cavities and under bark along the edge of hammock areas (Hebard, 1915).
Abundant between basal leaves of _Tillandsia utriculata_; beneath loose
bark of logs and stumps; in and beneath decaying palmetto trunks and
leaves; under rubbish (Blatchley, 1920). On ground in heavy tangle after
dark; in decaying log of _Sabal palmetto_; in bromeliads; common under
debris and bark in jungle; under signs on _Pinus caribaea_; in almost
every sheltered outdoor place (Hebard, 1917). It moves about at night
and hides under bark of logs and in other recesses during the day; where
pines are present it almost invariably hides under bark of dead logs and
stumps (Rehn and Hebard, 1914). Friauf (1953) found this species in leaf
duff, leaf mold, or decaying wood in these habitats: Sandhills
(infrequent), xeric hammock (dominant), mesic hammock (frequent), and
low hammock (dominant); on tree trunks in sandhills habitat (infrequent)
and mesic hammock (frequent); infrequent in saw-grass marsh habitat in
the grass stratum and, during the dry season, in decaying vegetation on
floor of marsh. Under the bark of logs and beneath logs in the woodpile
habitat (Friauf, 1953).
=Eurycotis galeoides=
_Cuba._--Under stones in deep woods (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
=Eurycotis kevani=
_Trinidad._--Under debris, trash, and vegetable refuse (Princis and
Kevan, 1955).
=Eurycotis opaca=
_Cuba._--In pine and palmetto region (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
=Euthlastoblatta abortiva=
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