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gently curved in and blunt at end with a tooth in male. Common in
sugarcane roots and in tunnels made by borers. A, nigrocastaneous.
Medium sized, smooth, black. Wings orange, black margins. Forceps
short, stout, three teeth in curved. E. metallica. Large, reddish, parts
metallic, greenish. Wings smoky. Forceps nearly straight, fine teeth in
inner margin, distinct tooth in the middle.
Read. Burr M. (1910) Fauna Br. India—Derniaptera.
Hebard M. (1923) Mem. Dept. Agr. 7: 195-242 Studies in Ind.
Derm
ORDER EMBIOPTERA (PLATE 1, FIG. 12)
Of no economic importance. Mouth parts like those of Orthoptera,
wings like termites. Delicate brownish. Prothorax small, meso and meta
longer, abdomen generally of ten segments. Wings smoky. Few Insects
veins, Front pair of legs stout, middle reduced, hind pair with swollen
parts. Generally males winged, females wingless. Usually found under
stones or some sheltered place. Some live as commensal in spiders nests.
Readily come to light, enter houses. Live in webs, thread prepared by
themselves by fore feet. Eggs laid in groups in silken tunnels. Mother
takes care of the young. Carnivorous but can live on vegetarian food.
More than one and often many live in the same tunnel. Move backwards
and forwards if disturbed. Life cycle 55- 70 days. About 140 species are
described so far, only a few in India and about 3 in Maharashtra. O.
saundersii ( E. bramina = E. latreillei). Pale chocolate brown, wing veins
and bands also brown. L. 7 mm. O. ceylonica lives as a commensal in
spiders nest, has dark smoky wings. L. 5-7 mm. O. asymetrica, dark
brown, head and thorax blackish, wings greyish, black veined. L. 9-10
mm.
ORDER DICTYOPTERA
Consists of 2 families—Blattaria and Mantidae.— Fam. Blattaria
(Cockroaches) (झुरळ) (Pरळ) (Plate 1, Fig. 13) Flattened. Large fore-wings
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