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Opaque stinking cockroach

Eurycotis opaca (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

Status not recordedinsects

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

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Quick facts about the opaque stinking cockroach

Weight
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Length
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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 opaque stinking cockroach live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

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

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderBlattodea
  5. familyBlattidae
  6. genusEurycotis
  7. SpeciesEurycotis opaca (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

Synonyms Polyzosteria cabrerae, Polyzosteria finschiana, Polyzosteria opaca

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the opaque stinking cockroach

Other species in the same genus Eurycotis.

Stinkroach

Eurycotis floridana

BlattidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

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Is the opaque stinking cockroach an invasive species?

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

The opaque stinking cockroach (Eurycotis opaca) belongs to the family Blattidae 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). Opaque stinking cockroach (Eurycotis opaca). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/opaque-stinking-cockroach

MLA

“Opaque stinking cockroach (Eurycotis opaca).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/opaque-stinking-cockroach.

BibTeX
@misc{opaque_stinking_cockroach_2026,
  title = {Opaque stinking cockroach (Eurycotis opaca)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/opaque-stinking-cockroach},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}