Nocticola is a genus of cockroaches in the family Nocticolidae[1] distributed in Africa, south-east Asia and Australia.[2] Nocticola are different from every other cockroach in that they are not infected with Blattabacterium cuenoti. This makes them the only genus in Blattodea that do not have the bacteria.[3]
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| Nocticola gonzalezi male (top) and female (bottom) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Nocticolidae |
| Genus: | Nocticola Bolívar, 1892 |
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Species
editThere are currently 25 known species:
- Nocticola adebratti
- Nocticola australiensis
- Nocticola babindaensis
- Nocticola bolivari
- Nocticola brooksi
- Nocticola caeca
- Nocticola clavata
- Nocticola cockingi[4]
- Nocticola currani[4]
- Nocticola decaryi
- Nocticola flabella
- Nocticola gerlachi: Gerlach's cockroach (endangered)
- Nocticola gonzalezi[5]
- Nocticola jodarlingtonae
- Nocticola leleupi
- Nocticola pheromosa
- Nocticola quartermainei[4]
- Nocticola remyi
- Nocticola rohini
- Nocticola scytala
- Nocticola simoni
- Nocticola sinensis
- Nocticola termitophila
- Nocticola uenoi
- Nocticola wliensis
References
edit- ^ Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
- ^ Cockroach Species File (retrieved 26 January 2018)
- ^ Lo, N., Beninati, T., Stone, F., Walker, J., & Sacchi, L. (2007). Cockroaches that lack Blattabacterium endosymbionts: the phylogenetically divergent genus Nocticola. Biology Letters, 3(3), 327-330. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0614
- ^ a b c TROTTER, ANDREW J.; McRAE, JANE M.; MAIN, DEAN C.; FINSTON, TERRIE L. (2017-04-04). "Speciation in fractured rock landforms: towards understanding the diversity of subterranean cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Nocticolidae: Nocticola) in Western Australia". Zootaxa. 4250 (2): 143–170. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4250.2.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 28610024.
- ^ Lucanas, Cristian C.; Ireneo L. Lit Jr. (2016-09-28). "Cockroaches (Insecta, Blattodea) from caves of Polillo Island (Philippines), with description of a new species". Subterranean Biology. 19: 51–64. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.19.9804. ISSN 1314-2615.