Blattidae

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Blattidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous-Recent
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American cockroach
(Periplaneta americana)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Epifamily: Blattoidae
Family: Blattidae
Latreille, 1810
Genera

See subfamilies and genera

Blattidae is a cockroach family in the order Blattodea [1] containing several of the most common household cockroaches. Notable species include:

Contents

Subfamilies and genera

Archiblattinae

Auth. Kirby, 1904; distribution: SE Asia

Blattinae

Auth. Latreille, 1810; distribution: Worldwide; synonym Duchailluiinae Roth, 2003

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Methana parva

Macrocercinae

Auth. Roth, 1993; distribution: Australasia

Polyzosteriinae

Auth. Tepper, 1893; distribution: central & South America, Pacific islands, Australasia

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References

  1. Cockroach Species File (retrieved 26 January 2018)
  2. Lucañas, Cristian C. (2021). "Bundoksia gen. nov. (Dictyoptera: Blattodea: Blattidae), A New sexually dimorphic Cockroach from the Philippines". Journal of Natural History . 55 (15–16): 1009–1020. Bibcode:2021JNatH..55.1009L. doi:10.1080/00222933.2021.1928317.
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