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A small cockroach species found under a rock on a cliff. Resembles Gromphadorhina portentosa in looks minus the horns and size
Primarily under rocks but seems to thrive on soil too
Seems to thrive on Soil despite living on/under stones. As of yet it only appears to eat succulent plants
Spotted on Apr 24, 2013
Submitted on Aug 24, 2013
5 Comments
Ice Cream Tubs are very useful :) Thanks for the welcome
Nice spotting Cameron!
I see you also turn rocks and use ice cream jars to keep your catches...lol
Welcome to this wonderfull site!
Regards from Namibia
Gert
That's what I'm thinking too. I need a dead specimen to get a proper ID but I'm not going to kill anyone of them just for that
I was wrong, might be Cape Mountain Cockroach (Aptera sp), not any hissing cockroach.
I think it looks more like P. Vanweirbecki. Most hissers eat rotting wood and decaying leaves along with any organic matter they find like fruit or even carrion. But that's going by captive specimens being these are wild they could provide valuable info by saying where they are found and habitat and food.