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Garden cockroach

Ectobius vittiventris (Costa, 1847)

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The garden cockroach (Ectobius vittiventris) is a species in the family Ectobiidae, order Blattodea. Source checklists list it for 6 countries, including Armenia, Georgia and Liechtenstein.

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Quick facts about the garden 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
6 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the garden 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 garden cockroach is listed for 6 countries.

RussiaArmeniaPolandUnited KingdomGeorgia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Armenia
  2. Georgia
  3. Liechtenstein
  4. Poland
  5. Russia
  6. United Kingdom

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the garden cockroach as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Belgium
  2. Germany

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 garden 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 garden cockroach classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderBlattodea
  5. familyEctobiidae
  6. genusEctobius
  7. SpeciesEctobius vittiventris (Costa, 1847)

Synonyms Blatta vittiventris, Ectobia vittiventris, Ectobius grandis, Ectobius neolividus, Ectobius vitreus

Other names and names in other languages (8)
  • Amber wood cockroachEnglish
  • BernsteinschabeGerman
  • Blatte forestière ambréeFrench
  • Žuti šumski žoharCroatian
  • kertvárosi erdeicsótányHungarian
  • BarnsteenkakkerlakDutch
  • Таракан БернштейнаRussian
  • Bernstein-WaldschabeGerman

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the garden cockroach

Other species in the same genus Ectobius.

CompareGarden cockroach vs Dusky cockroachGarden cockroach vs Forest cockroachGarden cockroach vs Tawny cockroachGarden cockroach vs Balkan wood cockroach

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the garden cockroach live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the garden cockroach for 6 countries, including Armenia, Georgia, Liechtenstein, Poland and Russia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the garden cockroach an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the garden cockroach as introduced in 2 countries: Belgium and Germany, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the garden cockroach?

The garden cockroach (Ectobius vittiventris) belongs to the family Ectobiidae 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). Garden cockroach (Ectobius vittiventris). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/garden-cockroach

MLA

“Garden cockroach (Ectobius vittiventris).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/garden-cockroach.

BibTeX
@misc{garden_cockroach_2026,
  title = {Garden cockroach (Ectobius vittiventris)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/garden-cockroach},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}