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Balta vilis

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Balta vilis is a species in the family Pseudophyllodromiidae, order Blattodea. Source checklists list it for 4 countries, including Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia.

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Quick facts about Balta vilis

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
4 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does Balta vilis 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.

Balta vilis is listed for 4 countries.

IndonesiaThailandMalaysiaJapan
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Indonesia
  2. Japan
  3. Malaysia
  4. Thailand

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Balta vilis 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 Balta vilis classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderBlattodea
  5. familyPseudophyllodromiidae
  6. genusBalta
  7. SpeciesBalta vilis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

Synonyms Blatta vilis, Lupparia vilis, Mareta similis, Onychostylus vilis, Phyllodromia ogatai, Phyllodromia vilis

Other names and names in other languages (3)
  • ミナミヒラタゴキブリJapanese
  • 扁蠊Chinese
  • 素扁蠊Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Balta vilis

Other species in the same genus Balta.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Balta vilis live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Balta vilis for 4 countries: Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Balta vilis?

Balta vilis (Balta vilis) belongs to the family Pseudophyllodromiidae 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). Balta vilis (Balta vilis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/balta-vilis

MLA

“Balta vilis (Balta vilis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/balta-vilis.

BibTeX
@misc{balta_vilis_2026,
  title = {Balta vilis (Balta vilis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/balta-vilis},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}