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Family Blattidae
- This page contains pictures and information about the Common Methana
Cockroaches that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 25mm
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- The Common Methana cockroaches are dark brown in colour, with
creamy white edges along both sides of body. This is quite a large cockroach.
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- Adult
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- The Common Methana cockroach in the above pictures was found under bark of
a large gum tree trunk. We sometimes find them in the
bush. They run
fast on ground and hide among plant materials.
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- Large Nymph body length 25mm
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- The above pictures show a nymph Bark Cockroach. The adults look the same except
with fully developed wings.
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- Medium size Nymph body length 20mm
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- The nymph was found wandering on a dry She-oak tree.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, fig.19.4.
- 2. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). IX. Revision of Polyzosteriinae tribe
Methanini, Tryonicinae, and Blattinae - Mackerras, M.J. 1968, Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 511-575 [517].
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