BIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS OF COCKROACHES — ROTH & WILLIS I23 



Order ACTINOMYCETALES 



Family MYCOF.ACTERIACEAE 



* Mycobacterium avium Chester 



Experimental vectors. — Blatta orientalis, U.S.S.R. (Ekzenipliar- 

 skaia in Pavlovskii, 1948). 



Mycobacterium friedmannii Holland 



Habitat. — Parasitic in turtles and possibly sparingly distributed in 

 soils. 



Natural vectors. — Pcriplaneta americana, U.SA., Texas (Micks, 

 in Roth and Willis, 1957a) : Organism isolated from batches of in- 

 testinal tracts of cockroaches collected at random. 



* Mycobacterium lacticola Lehmann and Neumann? 

 Natural vectors. — Pcriplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Leibovitz, 1951). 



* Mycobacterium leprae (Armauer-Hansen) Lehmann and Neumann 



Natural vectors. — Blattella germanica, Southern Rhodesia and 

 Kenya (Moiser, 1945, 1946, 1946a; Anonymous, 1946). 



Periplaneta americana and Pcriplaneta australasiae, Formosa (Ari- 

 zumi, 1934, 1934a). 



Cockroaches, Venezuela (Tejera, 1926); Belgian Congo (Radna, 



1939)- 



Experimental vectors. — Blatta orientalis, Europe (Paldrock in 

 KlingmiJller, 1930); Nyasaland (Lamborn, 1940). 



Blattella germanica, Europe (Paldrock in Klingmiiller, 1930) ; 

 Southern Rhodesia and Keyna (Moiser, 1945, 1946, 1946a, 1947; 

 Anonymous, 1946). 



Nauphoeta cinerea, Nyasaland (Lamborn, 1940). 



Periplaneta americana. Gold Coast Colony (Macfie, 1922) ; For- 

 mosa (Arizumi, 1934, 1934a). 



Periplaneta australasiae, Formosa (Arizumi, 1934, 1934a). 



Cockroaches, Belgian Congo (Radna, 1939) ; Venezuela (Tejera, 

 1926). 



* Mycobacterium lepraemurium Marchoux and Sorel 



Experimental vectors. — Cockroaches, Belgian Congo (Radna, 

 1939)- 



* Mycobacterium phlei Lehmann and Neumann 



Natural vectors. — Periplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Leibovitz, 1951; 

 Micks in Roth and Willis, 1957a). 



