Yeah the majority of hobbyists are not up to date on hisser taxonomy, and so many create hybrids unknowingly...Here, in Russia and the CIS in general, many do not even suspect that there are different types. Most believe that there is simply "Madagascar hissing cockroach." Others, however, think that any black cockroach is Princisia.This is all because no one has seriously studied and is not engaged in this group. I am, perhaps, the only person who is trying to do this. Now I am preparing for publication my book about Gromphadorhini and preparing an Internet site completely dedicated to Oxyhaloinae.
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There are others working on this group, George Beccaloni is working on a Gromphadorhini revision, and I believe another EU scientist is doing molecular work on the hobby hisser strains, (which may help determine which stocks in Europe are pure and which are hybrids)... It's slow progress, but progress nonetheless!
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