The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches — John Shaqi
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
_Tennessee._--In traps baited with cornmeal, cantaloupe, or fish in a
stand of oak on dry ridge, and in abandoned rocky field on a
south-facing slope (Walker, 1957).
=Parcoblatta desertae=
_Texas._--From mountains, arid, and semi-arid regions; under small
boulder on desert (Hebard, 1917). On ground in dry-creek bed through
scrub oak, pine, and juniper forest (Hebard, 1943a).
=Parcoblatta divisa=
_Eastern and southeastern U.S._--All specimens taken from under signs on
red oaks and longleaf and shortleaf pines in Georgia and Virginia (Rehn
and Hebard, 1916). Trapped in molasses-baited jar in oak forest in New
Jersey; under signs on red and white oaks, sweet gum, and other
deciduous trees; under signs on shortleaf and longleaf pines and pine
stumps (Hebard, 1917). Widespread in southeastern U.S. in habitats as
diverse as dry pine lands, oak scrub, moist hammocks in northern
Florida, and deep, cool ravines along Apalachicola River (Hebard,
1943a).
=Parcoblatta fulvescens=
_Eastern and southeastern U.S._--Trapped in molasses jars: in heavy,
barrier-beach forest; in typical pine-barrens undergrowth; in pine
barrens with heavy, grassy undergrowth; on border of pine barrens and on
edge of swamp; in heavy deciduous forest; in heavy oak woods. Found
under debris in dead, shortleaf-pine needles; under dead leaves on edge
of oak and shortleaf-pine woods; under bark of pine log; among dead
leaves under live oaks; under sign on _Pinus caribaea_ (Hebard, 1917).
_Georgia._--From under bark of pine log, among dead leaves under live
oaks, and under leaves on edge of oak and shortleaf-pine woods (Rehn and
Hebard, 1916).
_Florida._--Very common among dead leaves, under logs, beneath loose
bark, and wanders about at night in pinelands, hammock, turkey oak, and
sand-scrub habitats (Hubbell and Goff, 1940). Beneath drift, cow dung,
leaves, boards, bark of logs, and other debris, usually in open pine
woods in sandy areas; frequent at the base of thistle leaves (Blatchley,
1920). Friauf (1953) found this species in leaf duff, debris, or
decaying wood in these habitats: Scrub (dominant), sandhills (dominant),
xeric hammock (dominant), mesic hammock, longleaf-pine flatwoods
(infrequent), low hammock (infrequent), and alluvial hammock
(infrequent). In the shrub stratum in these habitats: Scrub (dominant),
sandhills (dominant), xeric hammock (dominant), and longleaf-pine
flatwoods (infrequent). In the herbaceous stratum of the longleaf-pine
flatwoods habitat, and under bark and beneath logs in the woodpile
habitat.
=Parcoblatta lata=
_Southeastern and southern U.S._--Under bark of pine logs and stumps; in
sweet-gum logs and stumps; moderately numerous under bark of dead
shortleaf pines; under bark of longleaf-pine stumps; under signs on red
oak and longleaf pines; in dead oak. In Texas, under bark of pine stumps
(Hebard, 1917).
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