#4137 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Oriental Cockroach
🇳🇱 Bakkerstor ·Blatta orientalis
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
06 in). It is dark brown or black in color and has a glossy body. The female has a somewhat different appearance from the male, appearing to be wingless at casual glance, but is brachypterous, having non-functional wings just below her head. She has a wider body than the male. The...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 12,210 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Oriental Cockroach
- Nederlands
- Bakkerstor
- scientific name
- Blatta orientalis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Blattodea
- family
- Blattidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3,848
- sightings worldwide
- 12,210
- GBIF records in NL
- 71
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Blattidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 154213, Wikidata Q20869, GBIF 5151589, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.