Mallee Woodland Cockroach: Male, Legs, ventral

Mallee Woodland Cockroach (Platyzosteria sp ES02)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Cockroaches (Blattodea)

Family:

Cockroach (Blattidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Mallee Woodland Cockroach (Platyzosteria sp ES02)

This Photo:

🔍Male, Legs, ventral🔎

Thank you Matthew Connors for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
This is the biggest cockroach we've every seen! 48mm long!!! Also it's a male and the females are usually larger!
Matthew said "Completely apterous + angles of ninth tergite sharp + tarsal claws strongly asymmetrical + femoral comb well-developed"

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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