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Desert Wood Cockroach

Parcoblatta desertae

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) rkostecke, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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19 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.

United States	29
Texas	23
New Mexico	5
Oklahoma	1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Ecological

ColonialFrom its classification

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Cockroaches and Termites · Blattodea
Family	Blattellidae
Genus	North American Wood Cockroaches · Parcoblatta

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

Practise Desert Wood Cockroach with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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