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Photo by Leon van Zyl
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bayucca
Unfortunately Blattodea is really a large group of cockroaches. Checking some I only know which candidates are ruled out. My closest guess would be Oxyhaloa deusta, Red-headed Cockroach. Do you remember a reddish head?? I cannot see it with this perspective from your slightly blurred picture. But I see some similar markings at the margins. http://www.schaben-spinnen.de/Data/Articles/00000%20oxy.jpg http://www.schaben-spinnen.de/Data/Articles/00000%20oxy%201.jpg http://www.ispot.org.za/species_dictionary/Oxyhaloa%20deusta What do you think?
Leon van Zyl
Hi bayucca I googled blattodea and as far as I can see that includes 4500 species? The closest common name I could get is the male oriental roach.
bayucca
Looks like some kind of a Cockroach, probably Blattodea.
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PublishedApril 18, 2014

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