Pacific beetle cockroach
| Pacific beetle cockroach | |
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| Laboratory colony specimen adult Diploptera punctata (Pacific beetle cockroach) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Blaberidae |
| Subfamily: | Blaberinae |
| Genus: | Diploptera |
| Species: | D. punctata |
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Diploptera punctata |
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Diploptera punctata or Pacific beetle cockroach is a species of cockroach in the family Blaberidae, subfamily Diplopterinae. It is one of the few cockroach species which are viviparous. They also produce a nutritionally dense crystalline "milk" for their young. Adults are chemically defended, having a modified tracheal gland and spiracle on each side which squirts quinones which can poison or discourage a predator.
It can be found living in Australia, Myanmar, China, Fiji, Hawaii, India
Diploptera punctata has previously been known by these other names:
George Beccaloni; David C. Eades. "Diploptera punctata". Blattodea Species File.
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