brown-hooded cockroach

insect
Also known as: Cryptocercus punctulatus

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cockroaches

life cycle

  • Cockroaches.
    In orthopteran: Growth and life span

    …a North American cockroach (Cryptocercus punctulatus) that inhabits rotting logs, feeds on decaying wood, and attains maturity after six or seven years. Grylloblattids live for five to seven years. The time required for domestic cockroaches to reach maturity varies with species and environmental conditions. The German cockroach completes nymphal…

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termite ancestry

  • Life cycle of the termite.
    In termite: Evolution, paleontology, and classification

    …living roach, the subsocial, wood-eating Cryptocercus punctulatus, which lives in rotten logs, has affinities with the termites. Cryptocercus harbours symbiotic, cellulose-digesting protozoans of the same genera as those found in the hindgut of primitive termites. The genitalia and certain internal structures of Cryptocercus have basic anatomic resemblances to those of…

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