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Family Blattidae
- This page contains pictures and information about the White-tailed Woodland Cockroaches that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 15
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- This is a small cockroach with oval and slight convex body shape. It is
shiny dark reddish-brown in colour with conspicuous creamy-yellow band on
apex of abdomen. The body surface texture is minutely rugose instead of
smooth.
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- We
saw this cockroach a few times in different Eucalypt forests in Brisbane. The cockroach was found on different plants during
the day. It was mid summer in Karawatha forest.
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- This cockroach run in a medium speed.
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- The cockroach was dark
brown in colour,
with one abdomen segment near the end white-yellow in colour. It had the relatively
thick body compared with other cockroaches.
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- We found it on the ground once.
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- Reference:
- 1. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VII. The Platyzosteria group: general remarks and revision of the subgenera Platyzosteria Brunner and Leptozosteria Tepper - Mackerras, M.J. 1967, Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1207-1298 [1243].
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