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Sub-winged Leaf-running Cockroach

Phyllodromica subaptera

Classification

Class
Insecta

The Surinam cockroach or greenhouse cockroach (Pycnoscelus surinamensis) is a species of burrowing cockroach. It is a common plant pest endemic to the Indomalayan realm that has spread to tropical and into subtropical regions around the world, and in isolated populations to temperate climates where protective habitat such as greenhouses provide shelter for individuals inadvertently shipped in the soil of plants. Its populations are almost exclusively female, and it reproduces through parthenogenesis, having evolved several clonal strains from its sexual progenitor P.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 90Spain · 52Italy · 1