Hermit creepy crawlies: Two new taxa of wood-feeding cockroach from China

Friday, December 19, 2014 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists from the Southwest University, Chongqing, China have found a new species and a new subspecies of cockroach. What makes these creepy crawlies distinctive from the cockroaches most of us know is that they don't infest human houses, on the contrary they prefer to live a hermit life drilling logs, hidden away from human eyes. The study was published in the open access journal ZooKeys.

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