The arthropods of Spec are as widespread and varied as on Earth. Volumes of text could be given over to their description, alone. It seems, however, that these invertebrates have been particularly conservative, and are not very different from their RL counterparts.
(fig. 1) Rattlegrass beetle, Coleagnathus drhozi (Sub-Saharan Africa)(See Bandersnatch, Beetle, and Bacterium)
(fig. 3) King in yellow (Regipapilio hastur) Southeast Asia.
(See Children of the Tree of Pain)
Promethean Fire-roach
One of the many thousands of species of cockroach in the warmer regions of the world. The Promethean Roach ( Pyroblabera promethea ) differs from most, which are generally cryptic, by possessing striking red and green stripes down the thorax and sides of the abdomen. These roaches and their relatives are large, heavily built insects from Eastern Australia and some islands north of the mainland.If disturbed, the promethean roach will hunch up, producing a loud loud hissing noise and displaying the colour stripes. If a predator or impressed entomologist then tries to sieze the creature, they are rewarded for their efforts with a convulsive spasm from the roach and a violent spray of foul-smelling, corrosive liquids from gland along the sides of the thorax and abdomen. Few (once they recover from the blinding pain and can breath again ) repeat the mistake.
The Christmas roach, Pyroblabera xmas, is slightly less robust, but even more vividly coloured.