Cockroach

Kenya 2011Bhutan 1997Tuvalu 2001Bequia Grenadines of St.Vincent 2011
Cockroach
Cartoblatta sp.
(Blattidae)
Oriental Cockroach
Blatta orientalis
(Blattidae)
American Cockroach
Periplaneta americana
(Blattidae)
Green Banana Cockroach
Panchiora nivea
(Blattidae)


Smokybrown Cockroach
Periplaneta fuliginosa
(Blattidae)
(BLATTARIA)
Smokybrown Cockroach (Child)
Periplaneta fuliginosa
(Blattidae)
(BLATTARIA)


Since some kinds lived, made the house the place and spread the distribution in the whole world, originally the cockroach which was disliked completely and became a thing is eating the animals and plants which lived in the forest and mainly died from the insect of the Torrid Zone or the subtropical zone. The cockroach which is close has many kinds of brown to dark brown. However, the beautiful kind which wore blueness with metallic luster, and the kind which wore green are also in the Torrid Zone. Although there are many comparatively large-scale kinds and the maximum kind has the length of no less than 11cm, there is the minimum kind only only 2mm. Although many ancestor-forms of a Orthopterida are stopped, there is not little specialization peculiar to a form etc. which became flat at back of belly. The flat body is suitable for entering a narrow crevice. A cockroach is a kind of the old insect of the origin and the fossil is discovered from the second half of Carboniferous period.

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