the species was treated by one source in 1910 as a southern variety of "parcoblatta uhleriana", termed "p. uhleriana fulvescens", as the males of the two species look very similar. among their differences are that "p. fulvescens" has a pale face, longer pronotum with less distinct disc-like impressions, narrower tegmina, and different characteristics in its cerci and its anal styles (two threadlike processes on the terminal segment of the abdomen). in addition, pre-1917 arizona records of "uhleriana" and "uhleriana fuvescens" refer to "parcoblatta notha".