Adult Female Panchlora & Arenivaga Photos!

One of my female Panchlora sp. "Guadeloupe" have matured!!! 😁 Now I can get to work on actually breeding this new banana roach species! Oddly though, she does not look as dark green as I was expecting for the females of this species, and is quite close to the males in coloration, though definitely a bit more greenish for sure. All in all the coloration reminds me very much of an adult male Panchlora sp. "Speckled", a very pale green with almost a silvery sheen to the exoskeleton and wings. She also looks less broad and flat than the female I've seen pictured as well.

In any case, here are some pictures of her, it was hard to get these as she was not too cooperative, and the three adult males in the enclosure were also clamoring to get out as I was removing her... 😅

Pretty right? Really looking forward to getting some offspring from this species, fingers crossed they do well for me! 

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I also wanted to share some better pics of my adult female Arenivaga bolliana "Del Rio" (Dark Form), since I noticed they all seem to have a reddish hue to their abdomens, which is more noticeable in some individuals than others. None of the females from my old colony of the normal phenotype had reddish abdomens, so this appears to be unique to this form of bolliana! These are doing very well for me by the way, both males have passed away, but hopefully they did their job well before dying, because all my females are laying oothecae now! 😃

Here are some pics of one of my largest and most reddish females, and of one of my smaller, darker females that is laying an ooth:

Large female with reddish abdomen

Darker female carrying ootheca

I love how interesting this strain is in terms of coloration, hopefully the ooths start hatching in a couple months or so, and I can start spreading this strain around more in the hobby! 😄

Anyways, that's gonna do it for today, thanks for reading, I hope everyone enjoyed, stay safe, and I'll see you all in the next post! 😉