ootheca
See also: oötheca
English
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A cockroach (Periplaneta fuliginosa) in Sydney laying an ootheca.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əʊəˈθiːkə/
Noun
ootheca (plural oothecae)
- An egg case of any of the orthopteroid insects (such as cockroaches and mantids).
- 1994, Daniel Evan Weiss, The Roaches Have No King, →ISBN, page 4:
- Since the founding of the colony it had been a tradition to unload oothecae – egg sacs – in the cabinets so the younglings would be near the principal food stocks.
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