Parcoblatta virginica

Parcoblatta virginica, the Virginia wood cockroach,^[2] is a small cockroach species of the genus Parcoblatta, measuring about a centimeter long as an adult.^{[citation needed]}

Parcoblatta virginica
Adult male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Family:	Ectobiidae
Genus:	Parcoblatta
Species:	P. virginica
Binomial name
Parcoblatta virginica (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
Synonyms
Ischnoptera borealis Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865[1] Temnopteryx virginica Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865[1]

Description

Adult males of this species like adult males of several other species of Parcoblatta are full winged and orangish in color.^{[citation needed]} Adult females are brachypterous and can be from rusty brown to almost black.^{[citation needed]} Nymphs can be brown to black.^{[citation needed]} Adults and older nymphs usually have a blackish or dark stained head.^{[citation needed]}

	Male[3]	Female[3]
Body length	11.5–15.4 mm (0.45–0.61 in)	10.3–12.5 mm (0.41–0.49 in)
Pronotum length	2.7–3.6 mm (0.11–0.14 in)	3.2–3.8 mm (0.13–0.15 in)
Pronotum width	3.4–4.4 mm (0.13–0.17 in)	4.1–4.9 mm (0.16–0.19 in)
Tegmina length	12.8–16.7 mm (0.50–0.66 in)	3.3–4.9 mm (0.13–0.19 in)
Tegmina width	4.3–5.7 mm (0.17–0.22 in)	2.7–3.3 mm (0.11–0.13 in)

Distribution

The distribution of the species is limited to Ontario, Canada^[4] and the eastern United States, including Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.^[5]

Additional images

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  Adult female P. virginica from North Carolina