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Asian cockroach

Blattella asahinai Mizukubo, 1981

Status not recordedinsects

The Asian cockroach (Blattella asahinai) is a species in the family Blattellidae, order Blattodea. Source checklists list it for 1 country: China.

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Quick facts about the Asian cockroach

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the Asian cockroach live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The Asian cockroach is listed for 1 country.

China
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. China

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the Asian cockroach as introduced in 1 country.

  1. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the Asian cockroach endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the Asian cockroach classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderBlattodea
  5. familyBlattellidae
  6. genusBlattella
  7. SpeciesBlattella asahinai Mizukubo, 1981

Synonyms Blattella beybienkoi, Blattella germanica asahinai

Other names and names in other languages (8)
  • Cucaracha AsiáticaSpanish
  • オキナワチャバネゴキブリJapanese
  • Azijinis prūsokasLithuanian
  • Азиатский тараканRussian
  • แมลงสาบเอเชียThai
  • 朝氏姬蠊Chinese
  • 朝氏姬蠊 ( 亞洲姬蠊)Chinese
  • 朝比奈氏姬蠊 (亞洲姬蠊)Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the Asian cockroach

Other species in the same genus Blattella.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the Asian cockroach live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the Asian cockroach for 1 country: China. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the Asian cockroach an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the Asian cockroach as introduced in 1 country: United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the Asian cockroach?

The Asian cockroach (Blattella asahinai) belongs to the family Blattellidae in the order Blattodea.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Asian cockroach (Blattella asahinai). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/asian-cockroach

MLA

“Asian cockroach (Blattella asahinai).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/asian-cockroach.

BibTeX
@misc{asian_cockroach_2026,
  title = {Asian cockroach (Blattella asahinai)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/asian-cockroach},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}