Robshelfordia circumducta

1 Shelford's Variable Cockroach at Lyneham, ACT

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Identification history

	Robshelfordia circumducta	9 Mar 2022	MichaelMulvaney
	Unverified	8 Mar 2022	megsclass

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MichaelMulvaney wrote:

9 Mar 2022

A native cockroach that occurs across the Murray-Darling Basin and is important for breaking down organic material such as the decaying log under which you found it or the surrounding leaf litter- returning nutrients to the soil and making them available to plants.

megsclass wrote:

9 Mar 2022

Thanks so much Michael - the kids will be delighted. They were very pleased to find a cockroach and we have already had a robust discussion about how cockroaches live not just in houses, but in the bush and what they do.

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Sighting information

At least 1 Abundance
7 Mar 2022 12:51 PM Recorded on
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Insects Cockroaches (Blattodea, several families) megsclass Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

Robshelfordia circumducta Scientific name
Shelford's Variable Cockroach Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 809.13m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania