This cockroach is only found in Australia.
At the base of a single Banyan tree, the Lord Howe Island Wood-feeding Cockroach with 22 - 40 mm long, formerly believed to be extinct on the main island, has been rediscovered.
, a biology student has rediscovered a gigantic, wingless, wood-eating cockroach that was thought to be extinct since the 1930s and is only found on Australia's Lord Howe Island.“For the first 10 seconds or so, I thought, ‘No, it can’t be,” said Maxim Adams, an Honors student under Professor Nathan Lo at the University of Sydney’s School of Biological Sciences. “I mean, I lifted the first rock under this huge banyan tree, and there it was.
“We found families of them, all under this one banyan,” said Senior Scientist Nicholas Carlile of the NSW Department of Planning and Environment , who was with Adams exploring North Bay, a secluded white, sandy beach only accessible by foot or water. “Maxim and Nathan were there for the rest of the week, looked under every other banyan in North Bay, but didn’t find anything.”