Recent content by Gromphadorhini

Here is a set I have recently received from a company that produces agricultural feed for animals. I buy bags of 50 kg at once. Light granules are wheat bran, they are eaten most actively. Green granules are herbal flour, eaten almost as actively as bran. The brown tablets are meat and bone...

Because I was away for a long time, many of my laboratory cultures fell into disrepair and now I have to resurrect them. Everyone suffered. In about two months, there are already positive results. Elliptorhina chopardi About 90% of the population has disappeared, but now, active restoration...

I really love Palearctic Buthidae. These are all species of the Palearctic that live in arid conditions. I generally like animals and plants from arid places (xerophiles). Now I am actively collecting species of desert Buthidae and here is what I already have in my collection at the moment...

Recently I saw that this culture began to be called Bantua robusta Namibia. Who determined to the species and by what keys, on the basis of what morphological features?

The largest Panesthiinae species in my collection. Relatively unpretentious, but like all Panesthiinae, they are not fertile. In general, there are doubts that this is brevipennis. The nymphs of this culture are completely black, like adults (camera effect in the photo).

Does anyone have it in collections? 

In early May, I received material from Uzbekistan, collected in three locations: a clay desert near the city of Termez (extreme south), from the surrounding sandy massifs of the year of Bukhara and from the sandy desert of the Nurata nature reserve. Naturally, all the material came unnamed. I...

In my collection there is a culture that we designated as Ergaula sp. Kinabatangan, Borneo, as the material was collected by one of our Russian keepers along the Kinabatangan River, in the east of Kalimantan Island (Borneo), several years ago. These cockroaches differ from the species already...

I would like to talk about the Polyphaga obscura culture. As far as I know, there is a culture called P. obscura and it is represented only by parthenogenetic females. As you know, females of at least three Polyphaga species are indistinguishable, and identification is possible only by males. If...

One of the females of Elliptorhina davidi gave birth to about two dozen nymphs. This is very wonderful, but of course there are well-founded fears for them, as well as for the whole group as a whole. We can only wait and hope :) My conditions are standard for all Gromphadorhini: humidity is...

I brought over 100 Polyphaga saussurei cockroaches from the Kyzylkum desert. These are adults and nymphs of different ages and sex. Females now systematically produce ootheca, which are incubated separately. I do not plan to sell my cockroaches, but my dream is to create a wonderful...

Finally gave birth! About (or more) 20 nymphs. Another female also had mating, now we are waiting for her to give birth :) Everyone is not visible in the photo, since they are smartly hiding:

Finally, I decided to acquire this wonderful species of the subfamily Eumenophorinae! Since childhood, I dreamed of such a spider, for the first time I saw a small photo of it in a book about wildlife, however, it said that it was a spider from the genus Lasiodora :) But then I did not have...

I have two subspecies Panesthia angustipennis - P. a. cognata and P. a. angustipennis. As you know, they grow and develop for a long time, but yesterday the first imago appeared (I think that the male, but did not specifically determine the sex). There he is :)  : What Panesthiinae do you...

I finally have six older nymphs Simandoa conserfariam, which I have long dreamed of (since they are Oxyhaloinae). I have no information on the cultivation and breeding of this species. The first imago appeared yesterday (presumably a male). Since I only have six individuals, I am very worried...