The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis): An Introduction to the Study of InsectsMiall, L. C. (Louis Compton)
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The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis): An Introduction to the Study of Insects
Miall, L. C. (Louis Compton)
Cockroaches
_Ref._--Siebold, Naturg. wirbelloser Thiere (1839) _fide_ Stein;
Stein, Organismus d. Infusions-thiere, Bd. II., p. 345 (1867);
Bütschli, Zeits. f. wiss. Zool., Bd. XXX., p. 273, pl. xv. (1878);
Leidy, Proc. Acad. N. S. Phil., Oct. 7th, 1879, and Freshwater
Rhizopods of N. America, p. 300 (1879).
_Gregarina (Clepsidrina) Blattarum_, Sieb. GREGARINIDA.
Encysted in chylific stomach and gizzard; free in large intestine.
_Ref._--Siebold, Naturg. wirbelloser Thiere, pp. 56, 71 (1839);
Stein, Müll. Arch., 1848, p. 182, pl. ix., figs. 38, 39; Leidy,
Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., Vol. X., p. 239 (1852); Bütschli, Zeits.
f. wiss. Zool., Bd. XXI., p. 254 (1871), and Bd. XXXV., p. 384
(1881); Schneider, Grégarines des Invertébrés, p. 92, pl. xvii.,
figs. 11, 12 (1876).
_Nyctotherus ovalis_, Leidy. INFUSORIA.
Small and large intestines.
_Ref._--Leidy, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., Vol. X., p. 244, pl. xi.
(1852).
_Plagiotoma (Bursaria) blattarum_, Stein. INFUSORIA.
Rectum.
_Ref._--Stein, Sitzb. d. königl. Böhm. Ges., 1860, pp. 49, 50.
_Lophomonas Blattarum_, Stein. INFUSORIA.
Rectum.
_Ref._--Stein (loc. cit.); Bütschli, Zeits. f. wiss. Zool., Bd.
XXX., p. 258, plates xiii., xv. (1878).
_L. striata_, Bütschli. INFUSORIA.
Rectum.
_Ref._--Bütschli, Zeits. f. wiss. Zool., Bd. XXX., p. 261, plates
xiii., xv. (1878).
_Gordius_, sp. NEMATELMINTHA.
Specimens in the Museum at Hamburg, from Venezuela. Obtained from
some species of Cockroach.
_Oxyuris Diesingi_, Ham. NEMATELMINTHA.
Rectum, frequent.
_Ref._--Hammerschmidt, Isis, 1838; Bütschli, Zeits. f. wiss. Zool.,
Bd. XXI., p. 252, pl. xxi. (1871).
_O. Blattæ orientalis_, Ham. NEMATELMINTHA.
Rectum (much rarer than _O. Diesingi_).
_Ref._--Hammerschmidt (_loc. cit._); Bütschli, Zeits. f. wiss.
Zool., Bd. XXI., p. 252, pl. xxii. (1871).
Other species of _Oxyuris_ are said to occur in the same situation,
_e.g._, _O. gracilis_ and _O. appendiculata_ (Leidy, Proc. Acad.
N. S. Phil., Oct. 7th, 1879), and _O. macroura_ (Radkewisch, quoted
by Van Beneden in Animal Parasites, Engl. trans., p. 248).
_Filaria rhytipleurites._ NEMATELMINTHA.
Encysted in the fat-body of the Cockroach; sexual state in the
alimentary canal of the Rat. _Spiroptera obtusa_ is similarly
shared by the Meal-worm (larva of _Tenebrio molitor_) and the Mouse.
_Ref._--Galeb, Compt. Rend., July 8th, 1878.
_Acarus_, sp. ARACHNIDA.
Found by Cornelius upon the sexual organs of a male Cockroach.
_Ref._--Cornelius, Beitr. zur nähern Kenntniss von _Periplaneta
orientalis_, p. 35, fig. 23 (1853).
_Evania appendigaster_, L. INSECTA (_Hymenoptera_).
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