Blattoidea

Blattoidea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Superfamily:	Blattoidea

Blattoidea is a superfamily of cockroach in the order Blattodea. There are about 10 families and at least 780 described species in Blattoidea.

Families

These 10 families belong to the superfamily Blattoidea:

• Archotermopsidae Engel et al., 2009 ^b (rottenwood termites)
• Blattidae ^{i c g b}
• Cryptocercidae ^{i c g b}
• Hodotermitidae Desneux, 1904 ^{i g}
• Kalotermitidae Froggart, 1897 ^{i c g b} (drywood termites)
• Lamproblattidae ^{c g}
• Rhinotermitidae Froggart, 1897 ^{i c g b} (subterranean termites)
• Termitidae Latreille, 1802 ^{i c g b} (higher termites)
• Termopsidae Holmgren, 1911 ^{i c g}
• Tryonicidae ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Atkinson, T.H.; Koehler, P.G.; Patterson, R.S. (1991). "Catalog and atlas of the cockroaches (Dictyoptera) of North America north of Mexico". Misc. Publ. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 78: 1–86. ISBN 978-9991575872.
• Beccaloni, George W.; Eggleton, Paul (2011). Zhang, Z.Q. (ed.). "Order Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa (3148): 199–200. ISSN 1175-5326.
• Beccaloni, George W.; Eggleton, Paul (2013). Zhang, Z.Q. (ed.). "Order Blattodea. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa (3703): 46–48. ISSN 1175-5326.
• Borror, Donald J.; Peterson, Roger Tory; White, Richard E. (1998). A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0395911709.
• Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology. Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-40366-8.
• Grimaldi, D.; Engel, M.S. (2005). Evolution of the Insects. ISBN 978-0521821490.
• Johnson, Norman F.; Triplehorn, Charles A. (2004). Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects. Brooks Cole. ISBN 978-0030968358.
• Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
• Majka, C. (2009). "Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island". ZooKeys. 22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.93.
• Misof, B.; Liu, S.; Meusemann, K.; Peters, R.S.; et al. (2014). "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution". Science. 346 (763). doi:10.1126/science.1257570.