3 Pink-tailed heath cockroach at Vincentia, NSW
Identification history
| Polyzosteria aenea | 23 Nov 2023 | trevorpreston | ||
| Polyzosteria aenea | 24 Feb 2022 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Polyzosteria aenea | 23 Feb 2022 | AnneG1 |
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User's notes
I think this is a p.aenea or p.limbata. At one stage it raised it's rear end and it was very red. It was crawling across a sandy path and made it's way into low shrubbery.
1 comment
trevorpreston
wrote:
28 Feb 2022
Great sighting. Our poor cockroaches are so often overlooked. Thank you.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.680358-35.088347
- Altitude 88.0m
- Places Vincentia, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 18 Feb 2022 03:42 PM Recorded on
- AnneG1 Recorded by
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AnneG1 South Coast NatureMapr Polyzosteria aenea Cockroaches (Blattodea, several families) Insects
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Polyzosteria aenea Scientific name
- Pink-tailed heath cockroach Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 314.21m Recorded at altitude
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- More than one media file
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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