Periplaneta Americana
PERIPLANETA AMERICANA
CLASSIFICATION:
PHYLUM ARTHROPODA (Jointed legs).
SUB-PHYLUM: UNIRAMIA (single branch appendage).
CLASS: INSECTA (3 pair of jointed legs).
COMMENTS:
•Commonly called as cockroach.
Body reddish brown in colour measuring 2.5cm in length.
• Body elongated, bilaterally symmetrical & dorsoventrally flattened.
•Body differentiated into dorsal & ventral surface & divided into head, thorax & abdomen.
• Head is slightly movable containing a pair of antennae & compound eyes.
•Thorax divisible into prothorax, mesothorax and metathorax. Thorax contains 3 pairs of walking legs, a pair of anterior forewing & a pair of posterior hindwings.
•Abdomen contains 10 segments. Male & female cockroaches are distinguised by appendages in 10th abdominal segments.
•Male has a pair of segmented anal cerci & a pair of segmented anal styles in 10th abdominal segment.
•Female cockroach has anal cerci & ovipositor valves.
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