Mantids and Cockroaches
(Dictyoptera)
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Suborder:
Cockroaches
(Blattaria)
Family:
(Blattellidae)
Pennsylvania Wood Cockroach
Parcoblatta pennsylvanica
female (May, St. Charles Co., MO)
(May, St. Charles Co., MO)
nymph (May, St. Charles Co., MO)
Suborder:
Mantids
(Mantodea)
Family:
(Mantidae)
Chinese Mantid
Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
nymph (May, St. Charles Co., MO)
immature (June, St. Charles Co., MO)
immature (June, St. Charles Co., MO)