Ectobiidae (family)

Cockroach at suppressed

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Identification history

	Ectobiidae (family)	17 May 2025	trevorpreston
	Unverified	15 May 2025	MazzV

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User's notes

A small and relatively narrow tan-brown slim cockroach with a pair of symmetrical marks/textured patches on the pronotum. The wings appear translucent despite being coloured tan, and have diagonal lines, possibly textural rather than a pigment difference, running parallel with the front edge of the fore wings (photo 2). The underside is generally the same colour as the upper side, except for some blackening of the abdomen at the front (photo 5).

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trevorpreston wrote:

17 May 2025

Very interesting cockroach. I think it's probably an Ectoneura sp. But I don't have enough info to identify this one to species.

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Sighting information

1 Abundance
MazzV Recorded by
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MazzV NatureMapr New South Wales North Coast Latest Cockroaches (Blattodea, several families) Insects

Additional information

12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

Ectobiidae (family) Scientific name
Cockroach Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 598.12m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania