Scalida latiusvittata, a truly slept on species?

Around early October 2025, I went nearby a fishing area to look at some wild fish. There was a large population of guppies around the area. It was kind of like a sewer system but pretty clear and taken over by nature.

I got curious and did start flipping the stones around the place, and seeing the large amount of moss growing on the surface and sides of the water, so I was quite sure I'd find something.

I spotted some little dark red colored insects darting very quickly, and they turned out to be these little nymphs of a roach. I found about 5 or 6 individuals.


They were these little roach nymphs. I caught a few in some little deli cups and brought them home. I was pretty sure they were either pre-adults or a species with vestigial wings as seen here.

I set up a little cup with some substrate, bark, some moss, and other stuff.

Soon enough, they matured! And I realized this was a species I have seen before.


They were these Scalida latiusvittata, a small Ectobiid species that originates from some parts of Southeast Asia.


Source: Cockroach Species File

I have kept a few individuals I found in a garden multiple years before but failed (in those terrible roach keeping days)

These guys are super quick, can climb well, and fly insanely well too. Pretty sure I had one escape and he flew into I have no idea where.

I was going to try my best to keep these alive this time, and honestly I haven't really found that much information of them anywhere.

I only found images off iNaturalist and a person on discord a few years back who helped me ID it.

To keep them comfy I decided to try to replicate their natural environment where I found them at. Many hides, moss, and moist.

Now all I had to do was keep them dark, feed them some nutritious food, and wait.

To my surprise, it actually worked. Around a month later in late November I spotted a ton of these little white antennae, and when I blew a bit of air a bunch of super tiny nymphs ran around.



They were just these little tiny specks of roaches, and I was going to be more committed this time to keep them alive. I couldn't wait to have a nice colony of these absolute stunners (which also happen to fly like flies)

And so I just kept the conditions moist, humid, and provided protein-rich foods quite often.


Seen from the image above, a few months later, they all are starting to grow quite well and fast too.


I realized that this is genuinely a pretty easy roach species to keep, quite unfortunate that there is very little known information online and very few known people keeping them in the hobby.

I hope in the future this species will be more widespread across the hobby, as they are (in my opinion) stunning and absolutely prolific breeders. Kind of like a more slept on Blattella.

It didn't take long for me to see some pre-adults nymphs aswell, just like I had seen a few months prior.


I was quite excited to see adults from my own captive bred Scalida, with one molt remaining.

Around March of this year, the first few adult started popping up.




This meant that the first generation of my CB Scalida latiusvittata have matured! I was quite happy to see this, and good to know they were also one of the hardy and prolific species.

To wrap up this post, as of posting this in April 2026, the adults seen above have also laid a few of these long shaped oothecae.


This means that there will probably be more nymphs coming soon, and the second generation will be in here in just a bit.

That's all for this post, will probably update more in the future regarding this species.

Thank you for taking your time to read, and see you in the next post. 🙏

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