Class: Hexapoda (animals with six legs - includes all insects)
Order: Blattaria (cockroaches)
Family: Polyphagidae (sand cockroaches and others)
Species: Arenivaga sp.
Common Name: sand cockroach (not species specific)
Date: 2001 June 14
Place: Guadalupe Mountains National Park
photographed at Pine Springs Visitor Center at the lights
This picture is of a male. The females are wingless.
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