Blattidae
| Blattidae Temporal range: Cretaceous-Recent
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| American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Blattidae Latreille, 1810 |
| Genera | |
Blattidae is a cockroach family in the order Blattodea[1] containing several of the most common household cockroaches. Some notable species include:
- Blatta orientalis: Oriental cockroach,
- Common shining cockroach: (Drymaplaneta communis)
- Florida woods cockroach: (Eurycotis floridana)
- Periplaneta spp: American cockroach, Australian cockroach, Brown cockroach, Smokybrown cockroach
- Shelfordella spp: Turkestan cockroach
- Botany Bay cockroach: (Polyzosteria limbata)
Subfamilies and genera[]
Archiblattinae[]
Auth. Kirby, 1904; distribution: SE Asia
- Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1862
- Walker, 1868
- Latreille, 1810
Blattinae[]
Auth. Latreille, 1810; distribution: Worldwide; synonym Duchailluiinae Roth, 2003
Methana parva
- Anisyutkin, 2014
- Princis, 1963
- Blatta Linnaeus, 1758
- Princis, 1963
- Shelford, 1910
- Celatoblatta Johns, 1966
- Deropeltis Burmeister, 1838
- Stål, 1877
- Rehn, 1933
- Shelford, 1910
- Princis, 1951
- Bei-Bienko, 1938
- Rehn & Hebard, 1927
- Stål, 1874
- Anisyutkin, Anichkin & Thinh, 2013
- Maoriblatta Princis, 1966
- Bei-Bienko, 1957
- Princis, 1966
- Neostylopyga Shelford, 1911
- Dohrn, 1887
- Periplaneta Burmeister, 1838
- Pseudoderopeltis Krauss, 1890
- Bei-Bienko, 1969
- Shelfordella Adelung, 1910
- Burmeister, 1838
- † Šmídová, 2020 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
Macrocercinae[]
Auth. Roth, 1993; distribution: Australasia
- Hanitsch, 1930
Polyzosteriinae[]
Auth. Tepper, 1893; distribution: central & south America, Pacific islands, Australasia
- Tepper, 1893
- Stål, 1874
- Shelford, 1909
- Drymaplaneta Tepper, 1893
- Shaw, 1925
- Eurycotis Stål, 1874
- Shelford, 1909
- Liao, Wang & Che, 2019[2]
- Tepper, 1893
- Mackerras, 1966
- Stål, 1874
- Stål, 1877
- Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865
- Polyzosteria Burmeister, 1838
- Tepper, 1893
- Shelford, 1909
- Tepper, 1893
- Stål, 1874
References[]
- ^ Cockroach Species File (retrieved 26 January 2018)
- ^ Liao, Shuran; Wang, Zongqing; Che, Yanli (2019-06-05). "A new genus and a new species in the subfamily Polyzosteriinae (Blattodea, Blattidae) from China". ZooKeys (852): 85–100. doi:10.3897/zookeys.852.33325. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6562000. PMID 31210744.
External links[]
- Gallery of cockroaches
Media related to Blattidae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Blattidae at Wikispecies
Categories:
- Blattidae
- Cockroaches