Alice Springs Fauna •
The genus Calolampra are a group of Australian cockroaches in the family Blaberidae. They have a number of common names including Bark Cockroach and Native Cockroach and often found under leaf litter and bark.
The Calolampra pictured here were under a large rock, that was also covering leaf litter in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The first set of photos is a of a female measuring approximately 3 cm in length
The following Calolampra sp was photographed the following day in the same location in Alice Springs (again under a rock). It was about 2.5 cm in length and lighter in colour.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Blattodea
- Superfamily: Blaberoidea
- Family: Blaberidae
- Subfamily: Epilamprinae
- Genus: Calolampra
Footnote & References
- Many thanks for ID to Cael David-Gallery, Matthew Connors, Amal H. Abdallah, members of Australasian Beetles Only, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180404322409639/
- Calolampra Saussure, 1893, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Calolampra
- Genus Calolampra, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/490418-Calolampra
- Genus Calolampra, ausemade, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/191169171
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