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Cryptocercus garciai
wood roach
Cryptocercus garciai is a wood roach species discovered in 1998 in the Chattahoochee National Forest of northern Georgia. It was the second Cryptocercus species documented in North America, challenging the previous assumption that C. punctulatus was the sole representative of the genus on the continent. The species was named in honor of American musician Jerry Garcia. Like other members of its genus, it exhibits subsocial behavior and dependence on gut symbionts for wood digestion.