Scientists Discover Species 'Cockroaches Jumpers'

Mike Picker Scientists discovered a new species of cockroaches, "cockroach Jumpers' in the middle of a favorite tourist destination in South Africa.

Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa, is home of the only kind of cockroach jumper in the world, who entered the top 10 list of scientific discoveries in 2011 from the experts. Similarly, as quoted from The West, on Friday (03/06/2011).

Picker, a professor zoologist from the University of Cape Twon, said that his findings showed that human knowledge is still at least the world of insects.

'Cockroaches Jumpers' are entered into the list of top 2011 science discovery along with a fungus that can glow in the dark, lizard-eating plants, bacteria found in the ruins of the Titanic, and others.

Cockroaches new species was named Saltoblatella Montistabularis. Saltoblattella word itself is derived from the Latin word meaning 'cockroach jump'.

"The cockroach is quite unique and athletic," said Picker.

Picker with his students using the web to look for flies to study them, before finally finding these cockroaches.

They cooperate with other scientists to confirm their findings that cockroaches are a new and quite different.

Scientists say that from approximately 5 thousand species of cockroaches, only Saltoblattella Montistabularis the only kind of jump.

Table Mountain National Park is visited by four million visitors each year, and the discovery of a cockroach is just 10 minutes drive from central Cape Town.

"It seems there are many types of insects that have not been found here," said Picker.

Meanwhile, Quentin Wheeler of the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University said that there are approximately 10 million more species waiting to be discovered and classified.

"Most people do not realize how the lack of knowledge we will be living things on Earth," says Wheeler.

"We are surrounded by a proliferation of animal diversity is too much to be recognized," he added.
(ATA)