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Panchlora sp.
The colors were soft green an I almost missed it in the balcony, can not tell what it is, the head was clear color and round looked like a shield, orange antennas and a very yellow mark on the side mid-body.
Wow! Is this really a cockroach?!
I hated & feared cockroaches (big black ones) when I lived in Japan. I seriously considered painting their backs with fluorescent paint so that they would look like a firefly at night (& less scary), but if they all were this color, I wouldn't have minded them crawling my house at all. :)
I think I found my bug!!
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/852... Green Blaberid Cockroach Panchlora sp.
bayucca, do you think this could be correct?
Thank you PatriciaPi, martinl, bayucca and Smith'sZoo, I can not believed it is a..."cockroach"... but it is so beautiful!!
I founded outside and I live in the forest (Bosque) that is why it is green.
@bayucca; Bugguide mentions one species only in North America so I went with that. But Wiki lists more than 40 species so I acknowledge your caution to determine the species ID.
Blattodea, Blaberidae, Panchlora sp.. I didn't find any reports of Nivea in Costa Rica. Could be that Nivea has spread out to Costa Rica.
This is very pretty Gilma, for a cockroach. Many cockroaches are arboreal (live in foliage) and I wonder why there are not more green ones.
Spotted on Nov 4, 2012
Submitted on Nov 4, 2012
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