Giant cockroach

Giant cockroaches
A male Madagascar hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Family:	Blaberidae
Genera
See text

Giant cockroaches, or blaberids (family Blaberidae) are the second largest cockroach family.

Some species

• Cape mountain cockroach - Aptera fusca
• Dwarf cave cockroach - Blaberus fusca
• Dubia cockroach - Blaptica dubia
• Green banana cockroach - Panchlora nivea
• Madagascar hissing cockroach - Gromphadorhina portentosa
• Speckled cockroach - Nauphoeta cinerea
• Surinam cockroach - Pycnoscelus surinamensis

Genera

• Subfamily Blaberinae

• Achroblatta
• Anchoblatta
• Antioquita
• Archimandrita
• Aspiduchus
• Cacoblatta
• Capucinella
• Cariacasia
• Bionoblatta
• Blaberus
• Blaptica
• Brachycola
• Byrsotria
• Eublaberus
• Glomerexis
• Glyptopeltis
• Gromphadorhina
• Hemiblabera
• Hiereoblatta
• Hormetica
• Hyporhicnoda
• Kemneria
• Mesoblaberus
• Minablatta
• Mioblatta
• Monachoda
• Monastria
• Neorhicnoda
• Oxycercus
• Paradicta
• Parahormetica
• Petasodes
• Phoetalia
• Pseudogyna
• Sibylloblatta
• Styphon

• Subfamily Diplopterinae

• Calolampra
• Diploptera

• Subfamily Epilamprinae

• Acroporoblatta
• Anisolampra
• Aptera (genus)
• Apsidopis
• Ataxigamia
• Audreia
• Blepharodera
• Calolamprodes
• Colapteroblatta
• Compsolampra
• Cyrtonotula
• Derocardia
• Dryadoblatta
• Elfridaia
• Epilampra
• Galiblatta
• Haanina
• Homalopteryx
• Litopeltis
• Miroblatta
• Molytria
• Morphna
• Nauclidas
• Notolampra
• Opisthoplatia
• Phlebonotus
• Phoraspis
• Pinaconota
• Placoblatta
• Poroblatta
• Pseudophoraspis
• Pseudoplatia
• Rhabdoblatta
• Rhicnoda
• Stictolampra
• Stictomorphna
• Thorax
• Ylangella

• Subfamily Gyninae

• Alloblatta
• Evea
• Gyna
• Paraprincisaria
• Paraplecta
• Princisaria
• Pseudocalolampra
• Progonogamia
• Thliptoblatta

• Subfamily Panchlorinae

• Ancaudellia
• Caeparia
• Dicellonotus
• Dolichosphaeria
• Hemipanesthia
• Heteroblatta
• Geoscapheus
• Macropanesthia
• Microdina
• Miopanesthia
• Mylacrina
• Neogeoscaphus
• Panchlora
• Panesthia
• Parapanesthia
• Phortioecoides
• Proscratea
• Salganea

• Subfamily Oxyhaloinae

• Aeluropoda
• Ateloblatta
• Coleoblatta
• Griffiniella
• Gromphadorhina
• Heminauphoeta
• Henschoutedenia
• Jagrehnia
• Leucophaea
• Nauphoeta
• Oxyhaloa
• Pelloblatta
• Pronauphoeta

• Subfamily Perisphaeriinae

• Bantua
• Compsagis
• Cyrtotria
• Derocalymma
• Ellipsica
• Elliptoblatta
• Gymnonyx
• Hostilia
• Laxta
• Neolaxta
• Perisphaeria
• Perisphaerus
• Pilema (Pronaonota)
• Platysilpha
• Poeciloblatta
• Pronaonota
• Pseudoglomeris
• Trichoblatta
• Zuluia

• Subfamily Pycnoscelinae

• Pycnoscelus
• Stilpnoblatta

• Subfamily Zetoborinae

• Capucina
• Lanxoblatta
• Parasphaeria
• Phortioeca
• Schizopilia
• Schultesia
• Thanatophyllum
• Tribonium
• Zetobora
• Zetoborella

• Subfamily uncertain

(see Taxonomy note)

• Africalolampra
• Apotrogia
• Diplopoterina
• Eustegasta
• Gynopeltis
• Hedaia
• Isoniscus
• Phenacisma
• Cryptocercus

Taxonomy note

Among the genera of uncertain subfamily, Eustegasta and Isoniscus have been removed from subfamily Perisphaeriinae. Cryptocercus is sometimes assigned to a separate subfamily, the Cryptocercidae.