Robshelfordia circumducta at Lyneham, ACT

Robshelfordia circumducta

Shelford's Variable Cockroach at Lyneham, ACT

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Identification history

	Robshelfordia circumducta	9 Mar 2022	MichaelMulvaney
	Unidentified	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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