Balta notulata, also known by the common name small-spotted cockroach, is a species from the genus Balta. By the 1960s it was spread in an area between Sri Lanka, Japan and Easter Island. Already in 1980s it was a domiciliary cockroach in Madang Province.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Small-spotted Cockroach being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Blattodea
- Family
- Pseudophyllodromiidae
- Genus
- Balta
- Species
- Balta notulata
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