Q:Japanese cockroach - The Japanese cockroach (Periplaneta japonica) also known as the Yamato cockroach is a cockroach native to Japan that is adapted to cooler northern climates. It has a flexible univoltine or semivoltine (one or two year) lifecycle depending on the timing of its hatching and is unusual in being able to spend two winters as diapause nymphs before reaching maturity. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Animal