Tortoise Cockroach
Ventral
White-banded Cockroach
S3, Female, dorsal
Animals
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| Tortoise Cockroach Ventral | | White-banded Cockroach S3, Female, dorsal | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Cockroaches (Blattodea) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Cockroach (Blattidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | White-banded Cockroach (Melanozosteria balteata)| This Photo: | S1, Male, dorsal | Thank you Matthew Connors for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~13mm long female, ~15mm long male. Normally females are larger. This is possibly individual variation. Used to think these were Zonioploca latizona, based on the images in Rentz's book, but it's WAY too small. Z. latizona females are ~23mm. They also have a ventrally yellow thorax, unlike the black here. Other differences include the entirely red legs and black head & face of these.
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