Polyzosteria mitchelli A beautiful cockroach I noticed north of Bullfinch.David Rentz describes this cockroach as "One of the most distinctive and widespread species in the genus.The 'windows' on each thoracic sevment and the blue legs are not shared by any other species. ""A Guide to the Cockroaches of Australia" David Rentz 2014
Native cockroach. Polyzosteria mitchelli (Angas)ID David RentzIt looked like a beetle as it ran along not far from a light brown cockroach I photographed the same day.1.5cm long
Don't you love the face?? :-))We visited one of our local bushland reserves today and found this beauty sitting on a shrub about 45cm from the ground. As I was photographing it a small insect flew past and the cockroach made a lunge toward it but missed.It was a large one - 35mmPolyzosteria fulgens MackerrasThanks for the ID David Rentz 14-1-2012
Summary[edit] Description: English: Large Black Kekerengu (Maoriblatta novaeseelandiae habitat). Date: 27 October 2019. Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/55060137. Author: Arnim Littek. Camera location40° 22′ 47.074″ S, 175° 13′ 40.332″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-40.379743; 175.227870. : This media file is part of an observation on iNaturalist:inaturalist.org/observations/34943158This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 truetrue. : This image was originally posted to iNaturalist by arnim at https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/55060137. It was reviewed on 23 July 2020 by iNaturalistReviewBot and found to be published under the terms of the Cc-by-4.0 license.
Mongeau J-M, McRae B, Jusufi A, Birkmeyer P, Hoover AM, et al. (2012) Rapid Inversion: Running Animals and Robots Swing like a Pendulum under Ledges. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38003. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038003
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Summary[edit] Description: English: Side view of a cockroach Periplaneta americana attempting to perform an inversion after claw ablation, but failing. The first sequences are real time. The second sequences are slowed 10X. The last sequence is slowed 50X. Date: 7 June 2012. Source: Mongeau J-M, McRae B, Jusufi A, Birkmeyer P, Hoover AM, et al. (2012) Rapid Inversion: Running Animals and Robots Swing like a Pendulum under Ledges. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38003. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038003. Author: Mongeau J-M, McRae B, Jusufi A, Birkmeyer P, Hoover AM, et al. (2012) Rapid Inversion: Running Animals and Robots Swing like a Pendulum under Ledges. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38003. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038003.
Summary[edit] Description: Cockroaches usually hide in the daytime. This one was out in full view. Polyzosteria limbata. Dharawal Nature Reserve, NSW Australia, January 2011. Date: 29 January 2011, 10:26. Source: Botany Bay cockroach Uploaded by berichard. Author: John Tann from Sydney, Australia. Camera location34° 12′ 20.51″ S, 150° 53′ 05.95″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-34.205697; 150.884985.