Periplaneta japanna

Short description: Species of cockroach

Periplaneta japanna

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Blattodea
Family:  | Blattidae
Genus:  | Periplaneta
Species:  |

P. japanna

Binomial name
Periplaneta japanna

Asahina, 1969

Periplaneta japanna is a subtropical field-dwelling cockroach endemic to southern Japan.[1] The Japanese common name means urushi cockroach, or lacquer tree cockroach.[2]

Nymphs and adults are a dark black, and typically live under stones and pieces of wood.[1] Their ability to bore or live in rotting wood enables their spread via ocean currents.[3]

The species is found on several Japanese islands, distributed continuously from Japan's southwestern Ryukyu Islands chain to the south of Kyushu Island, and on Hachijō-jima Island.[1][4]

Nymph specimens from Hachijō-jima Island and Naha, Okinawa responded to photoperiodic stimuli quite differently during laboratory-induced diapause tests. This “might be regarded as the result of divergent evolution” between the parapatric populations.[1]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Zhu, Dao-Hong; Tanaka, Seiji (2007). "Different photoperiodic responses in two geographic populations of a subtropical cockroach, Periplaneta japanna Asahina" (in ja, en). Acta Ecologica Sinica 27 (9): 3687–3693. http://www.ecologica.cn/stxb/ch/reader/create_pdf.aspx?file_no=1000-0933200709-3687-07. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
2. ↑ Asahina, Shojiro (朝比奈正二郎) (1991) (in ja). p. Table of contents. ISBN 4-521-00281-1. http://rnavi.ndl.go.jp/mokuji_html/000004323050.html. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
3. ↑ Sakai, Masahiro; Ohbayashi, Nobuo; Yoshihara, Kazumi; Aita, Kazuhiro; Okada, Keiji; Yoshimichi, Syun Ichi; Yano, Shinji; Ono, Hiroshi et al. (1998). "The enumeration of insects collected at Uchiumi-mura, Ehime Prefecture, Japan". Memoirs Of The College Of Agriculture Ehime University 42 (2): 169–190. http://eurekamag.com/research/033/803/enumeration-insects-collected-uchiumi-mura-ehime-prefecture-japan.php. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
4. ↑ "Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/details/species/id/7652533.

## External links

* Civil International Corporation's blog (in English, translated by Google), with many photos and observations concerning P. japanna. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
* Civil International Corporation’s blog (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 December 2013.

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