Hypomelanistic Dubia Roaches?

[Gwennie]

Normally I’d chaulk up strange or interesting coloration to just be normal variation, especially in a species so visually varied as dubia. When I first saw one of these, it stuck out like a sore thumb but I thought it was a molt. A week later, still the same color!

I took it out, and thought maybe it’s just cool looking, but I found another the same age with the same coloration, then a younger one with that golden color.

I’m going to test breeding them to prove it out, but I feel that with three looking exactly the same, it isn’t just another light colored dubia, but some kind of hypomelanism.

Pictures to compare below, a normal but lightly colored dubia vs the potential hypo (note they recently ate carrots):

 

[SB300]

I've been developing a yellow morph for a while now and I'm noticing that each new nymph generation seems paler with less markings so I'm trying for a completely yellow dubia with no bands or markings at all

That's a normal male next to my morph male

Collected these from my normal coloured colony I think they're getting paler as when I remove excess males for feeders I take the darkest ones first and always leave the lighter ones which is producing nymphs as in the pic above from my normal colour dubia colonies my yellow colony is much more yellow and lighter
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