Austral ellipsidion
The austral ellipsidion is a little Australian cockroach that lives outdoors in the bush. It is a harmless cockroach, not a house pest. It lives in the warm eastern and northern parts of Australia.
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Fun facts
It lives in New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland and Victoria.
It was first described in 1863 by the Swiss scientist Henri de Saussure, under a different name.
It is also called the bush cockroach, because it lives in the bush and not in houses.
Most asked questions about Austral ellipsidion
?Is the austral ellipsidion a pest?
No. It is a harmless native cockroach that lives outdoors.
?Where does the austral ellipsidion live?
In eastern and northern Australia.
Myth buster
Myth: All cockroaches are dirty house pests.
Truth: No. This cockroach lives outdoors in nature and is completely harmless, like most kinds of cockroaches.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ellipsidion australe
- Named by
- Saussure, 1863
- Group
- Cockroaches and termites
- Family
- Ectobiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Blattodea > Ectobiidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Eastern ellipsidion, Bush cockroach
Where the facts come from
- Ellipsidion australe (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Poyt448, Peter Woodard. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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