Thirty-nine new species of endemic cockroach discovered in the southwestern US and Mexico

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 13:50 in Biology & Nature

An American systematist has described 39 new species of endemic desert cockroaches from the southwestern US and Mexico. The roaches belong to the genus Arenivaga, in one of the lesser known families of cockroaches, which previously held nine species.

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