| Balta spuria | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Ectobiidae |
| Genus: | Balta |
| Species: | B. spuria |
| Binomial name | |
| Balta spuria | |
Balta spuria is a species of cockroach, indigenous to Australia. [2] [3]
Anostostomatidae is a family of insects in the order Orthoptera, widely distributed in the southern hemisphere. It is named Mimnermidae or Henicidae in some taxonomies, and common names include king crickets in South Africa and wētā in New Zealand. Prominent members include the Parktown prawn of South Africa, and the giant wētā of New Zealand. The distribution of this family reflects a common ancestry before the fragmenting of Gondwana.
The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.
Blattidae is a cockroach family in the order Blattodea containing several of the most common household cockroaches. Some notable species include:
Ectobiidae is a family of the order Blattodea (cockroaches). This family contains many of the smaller common household pest cockroaches, among others. They are sometimes called wood cockroaches. A few notable species include:
The Euphasmatodea, also known by its junior synonym Verophasmatodea is a suborder of the Phasmatodea, which contains the vast majority of the extant species of stick and leaf insects.
The Phaneropterinae, the sickle-bearing bush crickets or leaf katydids, are a subfamily of insects within the family Tettigoniidae. Nearly 2,060 species in 85 genera throughout the world are known. They are also known as false katydids or round-headed katydids.
Lonchodes is a genus of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae and the type genus of the family Lonchodidae and tribe Lonchodini. Species have a known distribution that includes tropical Asia and the Pacific.
Gromphadorhina oblongonota is one of four roach species in the genus Gromphadorhina, which is one of several genera collectively known as hissing cockroaches; like all members of the tribe Gromphadorhini, they are from the island of Madagascar. They are common in the pet trade, where they are known as "wide-horned hissers" and their scientific name is frequently misspelled as either oblongata or oblongonata. This species is difficult to distinguish from the common G. portentosa and is commonly confused with it,although oblongonota tends to be significantly larger and somewhat darker than portentosa.
Thorax porcellana Saussure is a species of epilamprid cockroach occurring in Sri Lanka and India. Both sexes are fully winged, but only the male takes flight, and then rarely and on short flights.
Ischnoptera deropeltiformis, the dark wood roach, is a species of wood cockroach native to the United States.
Neostylopyga is a genus of cockroaches described by Robert Walter Campbell Shelford in 1911. Some of the species are strikingly coloured and patterned and are popular in cultures under the common name harlequin roaches or harlequin cockroaches.
The Pseudophyllodromiinae are a subfamily of cockroaches, in the family Ectobiidae, with a world-wide distribution.
Epilampra is a genus of cockroach in the family Blaberidae. There are more than 70 described species in the genus Epilampra.
Latiblattella is a genus of cockroach in the family Ectobiidae.
Pycnoscelus is a genus of cockroaches in the family Blaberidae. There are about 15 described species in the genus Pycnoscelus.
Zetobora is a genus of cockroaches belonging to the family Blaberidae.
Macropanesthia is a genus of cockroaches belonging to the family Blaberidae.
Maoriblatta is a genus of cockroaches belonging to the family Blattidae.
Pachymorpha is a genus of phasmids belonging to the family Diapheromeridae.
Balta is a genus of cockroaches in the sub family Pseudophyllodromiinae. Found in Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania. The genus was created in 1893 by Johann Tepper.
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