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Parcoblatta fulvescens

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The species has been found in heavy, barrier-beach forest, in pine-barrens undergrowth (both typical or heavy and grassy), on the borders of pine barrens, on swamp edges, in heavy deciduous forest, and in heavy oak woods. In Florida it has been found in mesic hammock, xeric hammock, scrub, and sand
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has a pale face, longer pronotum with less distinct disc-like impressions, narrower tegmina, and different characteristics in its cerci and its anal styles (two threadlike processes on the terminal segment of the abdomen). In addition, pre-1917 Arizona records of
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The species' ootheca (egg case) is bean-shaped, very dark brown, and measures about 8.5 mm (0.33 in) long by 3.8 mm (0.15 in) wide. The edge with a seam is curved and has about 40 small crimps or folds. It is similar to the ootheca of
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The female head and pronotum are usually a pale reddish-brown, its short tegmina are reddish brown with paler sides, its abdominal segments are a darker brown, and its legs and underside are a brownish yellow.
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are on average smaller and less robust, less often have wide coloration differences, normally have a supra-anal plate with straight lateral edges that converge in a more acute apex, have a less convex
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Lawson, Fred A. (1967). "Ecological and collecting notes on eight species of Parcoblatta (Orthoptera: Blattidae) and certain other cockroaches".
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Two differently colored forms of the species were regularly collected in Kansas: a dark, olive gray to brown variety from
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body parts and dorsal views of two female specimens with slightly different wing shapes. Key to drawings on pages 278.
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endemic to the United States and possibly Canada that measures around 13 mm (0.5 in) long.
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Orthoptera of northeastern America: with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida
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Individuals may be found under dead leaves, pine needles (particularly beneath
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Atkinson, Thomas H.; Koehler, Philip G.; Patterson, Richard S. (1990).
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The species was treated by one source in 1910 as a southern variety of
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are much larger and more robust, with a more transverse pronotum.
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Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario
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McE (1966). 538: 487: 406:The distribution of the species includes 666: 609:(The article comprises the whole issue.) 708: 646:Gordh, Gordon; Headrick, David (2011). 974: 618: 598: 286:14.0–18.2 mm (0.55–0.72 in) 256:10.8–15.5 mm (0.43–0.61 in) 253:12.5–16.5 mm (0.49–0.65 in) 765: 764: 726:Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 722:"Biotic associations of cockroaches" 437: 300:3.3–4.7 mm (0.13–0.19 in) 297:4.3–5.6 mm (0.17–0.22 in) 289:3.1–5.6 mm (0.12–0.22 in) 278:4.6–6.6 mm (0.18–0.26 in) 275:4.3–5.3 mm (0.17–0.21 in) 267:3.8–4.9 mm (0.15–0.19 in) 264:3.3–4.0 mm (0.13–0.16 in) 13: 652:(2nd ed.). CABI. p. 68. 539:Blatchley, Willis Stanley (1920). 331: 14: 998: 740: 930:Ischnoptera uhleriana fulvescens 451:Likely 1st to 3rd instar nymphs. 444: 222:is relatively slender, has long 53: 401: 824:Cockroach Species File (old): 753:. 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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Ectobiidae
Parcoblatta
Binomial name
Saussure
Synonyms
cockroach
tegmina
cerci
P. virginica
Riley County, Kansas
Flint Hills
Manhattan, Kansas
Parcoblatta uhleriana
P. virginica
P. lata
caudal
femora
Ontario, Canada
native
adventive
shortleaf pine
Likely 1st to 3rd instar nymphs.

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