[2][3] The male of the species has a pale clay-yellow head, underside, and legs.

[4] The back of its abdomen, pronotum disc, occiput (X), and a transverse bar in the middle of its face are a brownish-yellow.

[4] Fred A. Lawson wrote in 1967 that the female is fully winged and capable of flight, a trait he stated was unique among the Parcoblatta species in the United States,[5] while a 2003 study involving P. caudelli caught in North Carolina characterized the female as flightless.

[6] The distribution of the species is the United States, in Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Indiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia.

[7] The species is common in forested areas,[6] and one researcher collected specimens from an old sawdust pile, at a former sawmill on the University of Tennessee Farm.