#3987 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Variable Cockroach
🇳🇱 Dwarsbandkakkerlak ·Planuncus tingitanus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Veenweg, Deventer, Overijssel, NL
📍 3811 LP Amersfoort, Nederland
📍 Zwolle, Nederland
📍 4318 CA Brouwershaven, Niederlande
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © swsankt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Stephan Pflume · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Mishanook · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © panguitou · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Mishanook · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © jubeh · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Veenweg, Deventer, Overijssel, NL:© marcel_deventer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 3811 LP Amersfoort, Nederland:© ikkuuuh · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Zwolle, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 4318 CA Brouwershaven, Niederlande:© Jakob Horz · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
l. is a working title for any of the species belonging to the Planuncus tingitanus species group, of the cockroach genus Planuncus (Blattodea: Ectobiinae). ").
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
- Spotted 205 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #48 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
- 8,722 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ignacio Bolívar in 1914 (112 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Variable Cockroach
- Nederlands
- Dwarsbandkakkerlak
- scientific name
- Planuncus tingitanus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Blattodea
- family
- Ectobiidae
- sightings in NL
- 205
- sightings in Europe
- 7,249
- sightings worldwide
- 8,722
- GBIF records in NL
- 352
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1914 by Ignacio Bolívar
relatives· Ectobiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 732964, Wikidata Q18206062, GBIF 7434815, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.