Lucihormetica is a South American genus of giant cockroaches from the family Blaberidae, collectively referred to as glowspot cockroaches. The adult males have the characteristic warty orange glow spots on their pronotum, females don’t. The glow spots are mostly glowing in wild roaches. because the wild roaches have access to bioluminescent fungi (mushrooms) in their diet.
The Cockroach Species File lists:
- Lucihormetica amazonica (Rocha e Silva, 1987)
- Lucihormetica cerdai (Ramirez-Pérez, 1992)
- Lucihormetica fenestrata Zompro & Fritzsche, 1999 – type species
- Lucihormetica grossei Fritzsche, 2003
- Lucihormetica interna (Walker, 1868)
- Lucihormetica osunai (Ramirez-Pérez, 1992)
- Lucihormetica seabrai (Rocha e Silva, 1987)
- Lucihormetica subcincta (Walker, 1868)
- Lucihormetica tapurucuara (Rocha e Silva, 1979)
- Lucihormetica verrucosa (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
- Lucihormetica yasuniana Vidlicka, 2019
- Lucihormetica zomproi Fritzsche, 2008
In addition, the following species has been reported by Vrsansky et al.
- Lucihormetica luckae