''Parcoblatta virginica'', the Virginia wood cockroach, is a small cockroach species of the genus '' Parcoblatta'', measuring about a centimeter long as an adult.

Description

Adult males of this species like adult males of several other species of ''Parcoblatta'' are full winged and orangish in color. Adult females are

brachypterous Brachyptery is an anatomical condition in which an animal has very reduced wings. Such animals or their wings may be described as "brachypterous". Another descriptor for very small wings is microptery. Brachypterous wings generally are not functi ...

and can be from rusty brown to almost black. Nymphs can be brown to black. Adults and older nymphs usually have a blackish or dark stained head.

Distribution

The distribution of the species is limited to Ontario, Canada and the eastern United States, including Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Additional images

File:Parcoblatta virginica adult female.jpg, Adult female ''P. virginica'' from North Carolina

References

External links

Drawings
from a 1917 article (The article comprises the whole issue.) by

Morgan Hebard Morgan Hebard (February 23, 1887 – December 28, 1946) was an American entomologist who specialized in orthoptera, and assembled a collection of over 250,000 specimens. Early life and education Morgan Hebard was born on February 23, 1887, in Cl ...

. Plate IV includes a dorsal views of a male and a female of ''P. virginica'' (figures 1 and 5), and views of body parts of the male (figure 2-4), with a key to the drawings on page 277.
Black and white photograph
of top view of ''P. virginica'' female with partly formed ootheca, from ''Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections''. Cockroaches Insects described in 1865 Taxa named by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl {{cockroach-stub