


New Wood-eating Cockroach Species Found in China
Chinese scientists have found a new species of cockroach, and a new subspecies. Unlike the cockroach pests that most of us are familiar with, these live outdoors and eat wood. […]

May Berenbaum Receives New Species of Cockroach Named After Her
Earlier this year, a PhD student named Dominic Evangelista wrote a blog post for Entomology Today where he described a new species of cockroach he had discovered, and offered to […]

Vengeful Taxonomy: Your Chance to Name a New Species of Cockroach
By Dominic Evangelista We’ve recently discovered a new species of cockroach in the genus Xestoblatta. It’s dirty, it’s ugly, it’s smelly, and it needs a name. As part of our […]

39 New Species of Cockroach Discovered in the Southwestern US and Mexico
A genus of cockroach in the poorly studied family Corydiidae has been revised for the first time since 1920. The revision has resulted in the discovery and description of 39 […]