Wood-roach
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Cryptocercus wrighti
Cryptocercus wrighti is a wood-feeding cockroach species in the family Cryptocercidae, described in 1999 from specimens in North Carolina. Like other members of its genus, it exhibits subsocial behavior and inhabits decaying wood in forested environments. The species is one of several North American Cryptocercus species that share ecological and behavioral traits with the genus's type species, C. punctulatus.