BIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS OF COCKROACHES — ROTH & WILLIS 28/ 



Periplaneta americana and Periplaneta australasiae, Australia, 

 China, and Japan (Bodenheimer, 1951). 



Cockroaches, Annam and French Guinea (Brygoo, 1946). 



In addition to the above records of cockroaches being used as food 

 by man these insects have also been eaten for medicinal purposes (see 

 Roth and Willis, 1957a). 



Order EDENTATA 



Family DASYPODIDAE 



Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus 



Synonymy. — Tatu novemcinctum [Johnson, personal communica- 

 tion, 1958]. 



Natural prey. — Ischnoptera deropeltiformis, Texas (Hebard, 

 191 7) : A specimen of this cockroach in the U. S. National Museum 

 was taken from the stomach of the armadillo. 



Order RODENTIA 

 Family MURIDAE 

 Mus musculus Linnaeus 

 Experimental prey. — Diploptera punctata, U.S.A. (Eisner, 1958). 



Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout) 



Synonymy. — Mus decumanus ; Epimys norvegicus. 



Natural prey. — Leucophaea maderae, Venezuela (Brumpt, 193 1) : 

 Rats infested with Protospirura bonnei presumably ate this cock- 

 roach which is the intermediate host of the worm. 



Periplaneta americana, Brazil (Magalhaes, 1898) : Remains found 

 in the stomachs of brown rats. Denmark (Fibiger and Ditlevsen, 

 1914) : This cockroach was found to be the intermediate host of 

 Gongylonema neoplasticum, a parasite of rats. 



Rattus rattus (Linnaeus) 



Natural prey. — Periplaneta americana, Denmark (Fibiger and 

 Ditlevsen, 191 4) : See comment after these authors under Rattus 

 norvegicus. 



Rattus spp. 



Natural prey. — Cockroaches, India (Maxwell-Lefroy, 1909) ; 

 Burma (Subramanian, 1927). 



