[3] The male pronotum is elliptical, widest at the middle, and its back edge, sides, and all its angles are rounded.

[2] Coloration of the male includes a dull yellow head, including its ocelli (simple eye spots), with a vertical "prout's brown" stripe from between the ocelli down to the middle of the clypeus at the bottom of the face[2][3] The disc of the pronotum (the plate behind the head) is a reddish-brown, its sides are a translucent yellow, and the back fourth is a darker brown.

[2][3] The female is larger and more robust than the male, although its somewhat tegmina are shorter, ending at the fifth abdominal segment, and it is incapable of sustained flight.

[2] The front half of its dorsal abdominal segments are dark, a transverse banding that is unique among females of the genus Parcoblatta.

[4] Specimens have been found in the cavity of a dead sweet gum tree, under a sign on a shortleaf pine, and beneath a log in a cypress swamp.