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Cuban cockroach

Panchlora nivea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Status not recordedinsects

The cuban cockroach (Panchlora nivea) is a species in the family Blaberidae, order Blattodea. Source checklists list it for 2 countries: Bahamas and Mexico.

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Quick facts about the cuban 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
2 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the cuban 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 cuban cockroach is listed for 2 countries.

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

  1. Bahamas
  2. Mexico

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cuban cockroach as introduced in 3 countries.

  1. Belgium
  2. Poland
  3. 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 cuban 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 cuban cockroach classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderBlattodea
  5. familyBlaberidae
  6. genusPanchlora
  7. SpeciesPanchlora nivea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Blatta alba, Blatta chlorotica, Blatta nivea, Blatta virescens, Ischnoptera lucida, Panchlora cubensis, Panchlora luteola, Panchlora poeyi, Pycnosceloides aporus

Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • Green banana cockroachEnglish
  • kubansk banankakerlakkNorwegian Bokmål
  • Groene bananenkakkerlakDutch
  • kubansk banankackerlackaSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the cuban cockroach

Other species in the same genus Panchlora.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the cuban cockroach live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the cuban cockroach for 2 countries: Bahamas and Mexico. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the cuban cockroach an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cuban cockroach as introduced in 3 countries: Belgium, Poland and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the cuban cockroach?

The cuban cockroach (Panchlora nivea) belongs to the family Blaberidae 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). Cuban cockroach (Panchlora nivea). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cuban-cockroach

MLA

“Cuban cockroach (Panchlora nivea).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cuban-cockroach.

BibTeX
@misc{cuban_cockroach_2026,
  title = {Cuban cockroach (Panchlora nivea)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cuban-cockroach},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}