Gleaming Tortoise Cockroach
S1, Juv, dorsal
Gleaming Tortoise Cockroach
S3, Adult Female, profile
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| Gleaming Tortoise Cockroach S1, Juv, dorsal | | Gleaming Tortoise Cockroach S3, Adult Female, profile | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Cockroaches (Blattodea) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Cockroach (Blattidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Gleaming Tortoise Cockroach (Euzosteria subreflexa)| This Photo: | 🔍S3, Adult Female, dorsal🔎 | Thank you Matthew Connors (Matthew_Connors) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere The nymphs we found were ~12 & 15mm. The adult female was the chunkiest cockroach we've found at 35mm long! We have found a different cockroach that was 41mm (truely massive) but we think this one was heavier. Both were HUGE. The surface had a metalic lusture and appeared somewhat bronze like; we had to get the lighting just right to show this in the photo's. Notice the extensive divits in the upper shell of the pronotum, called Pronotal Sulci, which extend to the 2nd & 3rd segments. Also notice the trailing tubercles of the pronotum, horn like.
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