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Pallid cockroach

Phoetalia pallida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

Status not recordedinsects

The pallid cockroach (Phoetalia pallida) is a species in the family Blaberidae, order Blattodea.

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Quick facts about the pallid 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 pallid cockroach live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the pallid cockroach as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Canary Islands

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 pallid 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 pallid cockroach classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderBlattodea
  5. familyBlaberidae
  6. genusPhoetalia
  7. SpeciesPhoetalia pallida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

Synonyms Blatta laevigata, Nauphoeta marginalis, Nauphoeta pallida

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • Pale-bordered cockroachEnglish
  • Бледный тараканRussian

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the pallid cockroach

Other species in the same genus Phoetalia.

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Common questions

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Is the pallid cockroach an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the pallid cockroach as introduced in 1 country: Canary Islands, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the pallid cockroach?

The pallid cockroach (Phoetalia pallida) 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). Pallid cockroach (Phoetalia pallida). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/pallid-cockroach

MLA

“Pallid cockroach (Phoetalia pallida).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/pallid-cockroach.

BibTeX
@misc{pallid_cockroach_2026,
  title = {Pallid cockroach (Phoetalia pallida)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/pallid-cockroach},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}