Beautiful Ellipsidion - Ellipsidion bicolor
Family Blattellidae
This page contains pictures and information about the Beautiful Ellipsidion Bush Cockroaches that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 18mm
- This Ellipsidion Cockroach has a black pattern on its orange-brown wings. The edges of thorax and wings are clean see-though too.
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- Nymph
- Blattellid Cockroaches of the genera Ellipsidon look very similar. Their bright orange colours suggest membership in Muellerian mimicry complexes.
- Reference:
- 1. Grasshopper Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz, UNSW Press, 1996, plate 363, p230.
