Distributional records of the cockroaches from Kakeroma Island

Abstract

Six species of the cockroaches are recorded from Kakeroma Island, the Amami Group, Japan. Five of them, Episymploce amamiensis Asahina, Blattella lituricollis (Walker), Pycnoscelus surinamensis (Linne), Opisthoplatia orientalis (Burmeister) and Trichoblatta pygmaea (Karny) are recorded for the first time from Kakeroma Island.