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Cuban stinking cockroach

Eurycotis caraibea (Bolívar, 1888)

Status not recordedinsects

The cuban stinking cockroach (Eurycotis caraibea) is a species in the family Blattidae, order Blattodea.

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Quick facts about the cuban stinking 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
Not recorded

Where does the cuban stinking cockroach live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cuban stinking 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 cuban stinking 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 stinking cockroach classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderBlattodea
  5. familyBlattidae
  6. genusEurycotis
  7. SpeciesEurycotis caraibea (Bolívar, 1888)

Synonyms Polyzosteria caraibea

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the cuban stinking cockroach

Other species in the same genus Eurycotis.

Stinkroach

Eurycotis floridana

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the cuban stinking cockroach an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cuban stinking 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 cuban stinking cockroach?

The cuban stinking cockroach (Eurycotis caraibea) belongs to the family Blattidae in the order Blattodea.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Cuban stinking cockroach (Eurycotis caraibea). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cuban-stinking-cockroach

MLA

“Cuban stinking cockroach (Eurycotis caraibea).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cuban-stinking-cockroach.

BibTeX
@misc{cuban_stinking_cockroach_2026,
  title = {Cuban stinking cockroach (Eurycotis caraibea)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cuban-stinking-cockroach},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}