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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea » Ectobiidae » Blattellinae » Wood Cockroaches (Parcoblatta) » Pennsylvania Wood Cockroach (Parcoblatta pennsylvanica)
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wood cockroach? - Parcoblatta pennsylvanica - male
Copyright © 2007 Sharon Cates

wood cockroach? - Parcoblatta pennsylvanica - Male
fairfield, Ohio, USA
May 19, 2007
found this cockroach hanging around the lights outside my apartment. having satisfied myself that it wasn't coming in i thought i would upload the pic for a positive id. if it is a wood cockroach i think it may have been a bonus that came with the last load of mulch the landscapers brought :)
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Contributed by Sharon Cates on 20 May, 2007 - 9:35pm
Last updated 6 January, 2010 - 9:38am

Yes.
Adult male, probably Parcoblatta pennsylvanica. They fly very well!
… Eric R. Eaton, 22 May, 2007 - 4:56pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks
for the id. hmmm if it can fly then maybe it's time for me stop using the lights outside my apartment as my entomology lab :)
… Sharon Cates, 23 May, 2007 - 5:41pm login or register to post comments

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