Cockroach

Surinam Cockroach Scientific Name: Pycnoscelus surinamensis (L.) Description: Female Surinam cockroaches are 3/4 to 1 inch long, brown, and the pronotum is dark brown-to-black. The wings are light brown and completely cover the abdomen. Males have never been found in the United States. Nymphs are dark brown to black and look much like immature Oriental cockroaches. […]

Smokybrown Cockroach Scientific Name: Periplaneta fuliginosa  (Serville) Description: Smokybrown cockroaches are 1 to 1-1/4 inches long when mature, uniformly dark brown-to-mahogany and characterized by fully developed wings that completely cover their abdomens. The pronotum is black. Nymphs are red brown; the younger ones have white markings on their backs and the first four or five capsule

Pennsylvania Wood Cockroach Scientific Name: Parcoblatta pennsylvanica  (De Geer) Description: Male Pennsylvania wood cockroaches are 7/8 to 1-1/4 inches long, and females are 1/2 to 3/4 inch long when mature; both are chestnut brown. Males have fully developed wings; the wings of females cover about half of their abdomens. The pronotum is edged in creamy white.

Oriental Cockroach Scientific Name: Blatta orientalis  (Linnaeus) Description: Male Oriental cockroaches are 1 inch long and females are 1-1/4 inches long when mature, and red brown to black. In males, the wings cover 75% of the abdomen; in females, they are reduced to small wing pads. The early nymphs are light brown but become increasingly darker

German Cockroach Scientific Name: Blatella germanica  (Linnaeus) Description: German cockroaches are 1/2 to 5/8 inches long when mature, light brown to tan and have fully developed wings. The pronotum has two dark parallel bars on it. The adult males are somewhat narrower than the females when viewed from below. The nymphs, 1/8 inch long when they

Brown Cockroach Scientific Name: Periplaneta brunnea  (Burmeister) Description: Brown cockroaches are 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 inches long when mature, red-brown and characterized by fully developed wings that completely cover their abdomens. The pronotum has to fainty dirty-yellow band around its edge. Brown cockroaches look similar to American cockroaches except that the last segment on the two cerci

Brown-Banded Cockroach Scientific Name: Supella longipalpa  (Fabricius) Description: Brown-Banded cockroaches are about 1/2 inch long when mature, light brown to brown, and have two light, yellow-brown bands running across their bodies; hence, their common name. The pronotum has a dark brown area which is shaped like a liberty bell. Females are darker in color and broader

American Cockroach Scientific Name: Periplaneta americana  (Linnaeus) Description: American cockroaches are 1-3/8 to 2-1/8 inches long when mature, red-brown and characterized by fully-developed wings that completely cover the abdomen. The pronotum has a dirty-yellow band around its edge. The nymphs are 1/4 inch long when they emerge from the egg capsule and initially are gray-brown. As