Hemithyrsocera sp.
Hi everyone. Welcome back to another post, after quite a while of not posting. I recently got a shipment of a few species of roaches. One of them was Blattella asahinai, and I got about 15 individuals. I spotted a few odd nymphs and this black adult, which was much larger and has a different morphology compared to asahinai. I initially thought this was Scalida latiusvittata, which is a species I've kept before due to the patterning and color. But then I checked out some of my latiusvittata pictures which revealed my specimen was much larger than latiusvittata. A few days ago, I was checking out iNaturalist to identify my nymphs, they looked like they would be Hemithyrsocera, so I checked out the Hemithyrsocera genus on iNat. I immediately saw some images of a roach that looked almost basically identical to mine, and the image was labeled as "Hemithyrsocera simulans". After seeing that, I tried to find a paper online about simulans, but the recorded range for this specie