On Earth, there are more than 4500 species of cockroaches, and scientists are constantly discovering new

Cockroaches crawling on the planet during the time of dinosaurs. To date, science knows more than 4500 species of insects, and recently, researchers have added to this list another three.

Although the "new" cockroaches and get all the features in the gigantic family of large tropical cockroach Blaberidae, but still some of them are different. For example, they yellow body are small in comparison with some "first cousins" - these cockroaches not grow more than three centimeters in length. For comparison, blaberus gigantus can reach ten centimeters in length.

New species were named Pseudophoraspis clavellata, Pseudophoraspis recurvata and Pseudophoraspis incurvata. They were found in the Chinese province of Hainan, Yunnan and Guangxi.









via factroom.ru