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male, Bulgaria. Foto:Dimitar Boevski · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Blatta orientalis
Linnaeus, 1758 · Oriental cockroach
Large, dark brown to black and glossy. The male’s wings do not reach the abdomen tip and the female has only small lobes. Cannot climb smooth surfaces.
- Länge
- 18–30 mm
- Lebensraum
- basements, sewers, damp rooms
Woran man sie erkennt
- Large (20–27 mm), dark brown to black, glossy.
- The male’s wings leave about a third of the abdomen exposed; the female has only tiny lobes.
- Flightless and a poor climber on smooth surfaces.
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Verbreitung
Throughout the country in buildings – basements, bakeries, sewers; cosmopolitan.
Wann suchen
all year in buildings and glasshouses