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Ectobius
Ectobius is a genus of non-cosmopolitan cockroaches once thought native to the Old World and described by James Francis Stephens in 1835, belonging to the family Ectobiidae, subfamily Ectobiinae. The oldest known member of the genus, Ectobius antiquus, was described from the Upper Cretaceous strata of the Nenjiang Formation (China). The discovery of 4 Ectobius cockroaches in Colorado dating to 49 million years ago suggests that members of the genus were present in North America in the past before their reintroduction by humans. This genus has been subject to a number of revisions.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Ectobius
subgenusEctobius
Ectobius eckerleini
speciesEctobius eckerleini
Ectobius supramontes
speciesEctobius supramontes
Ectobius burri
speciesEctobius burri
Ectobius ticinus
speciesEctobius ticinus
Ectobius pyrenaicus
speciesEctobius pyrenaicus
Ectobiola
subgenusEctobiola
Ectobius intermedius
speciesEctobius intermedius
Ectobius montanus
speciesEctobius montanus
Ectobius haeckeli
speciesEctobius haeckeli
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 130140.