Nocticola

Nocticola is a genus of cockroaches in the family Nocticolidae:[1] distributed in Africa, south-east Asia and Australia.[2] Nocticola are different from every other cockroach in that they are not infected with Blattabacterium Cuenoti. This makes them the only genus in the dictyoptera superorder besides mantids that do not have the bacteria.[3]

Nocticola
Nocticola gonzalezi Male (top) and Female (bottom)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Nocticolidae
Genus: Nocticola
Bolívar, 1892
Species

See text

Nocticola gonzalezi Drawing

Species

There are currently 24 known species:

  • Nocticola adebratti
  • Nocticola australiensis
  • Nocticola babindaensis
  • Nocticola bolivari
  • Nocticola brooksi
  • Nocticola caeca
  • Nocticola clavata
  • Nocticola cockingi[4]
  • Nocticola currani[4]
  • Nocticola decaryi
  • Nocticola flabella
  • Nocticola gerlachi: Gerlach's cockroach (endangered)
  • Nocticola gonzalezi[5]
  • Nocticola jodarlingtonae
  • Nocticola leleupi
  • Nocticola quartermainei[4]
  • Nocticola remyi
  • Nocticola rohini
  • Nocticola scytala
  • Nocticola simoni
  • Nocticola sinensis
  • Nocticola termitophila
  • Nocticola uenoi
  • Nocticola wliensis

References
  1. Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  2. Cockroach Species File (retrieved 26 January 2018)
  3. Lo, N., Beninati, T., Stone, F., Walker, J., & Sacchi, L. (2007). Cockroaches that lack Blattabacterium endosymbionts: the phylogenetically divergent genus Nocticola. Biology Letters, 3(3), 327-330. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0614
  4. TROTTER, ANDREW J.; McRAE, JANE M.; MAIN, DEAN C.; FINSTON, TERRIE L. (2017-04-04). "Speciation in fractured rock landforms: towards understanding the diversity of subterranean cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Nocticolidae: Nocticola) in Western Australia". Zootaxa. 4250 (2): 143–170. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4250.2.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 28610024.
  5. Lucanas, Cristian C.; Ireneo L. Lit Jr. (2016-09-28). "Cockroaches (Insecta, Blattodea) from caves of Polillo Island (Philippines), with description of a new species". Subterranean Biology. 19: 51–64. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.19.9804. ISSN 1314-2615.
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