Diploptera
| Beetle cockroach (Diploptera) | |
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| Adult Diploptera punctata | |
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| Genus: | Diploptera de Saussure, 1864
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Diploptera, also known as the beetle cockroach, is a genus of blaberid cockroaches. Cockroaches of this genus resemble beetles, with hardened tegmina and cross-folded hindwings. They live in tropical forests in South China and Southeast Asia, and Pacific islands including Hawaii.[1] They are viviparous cockroaches and are therefore used for insect endocrinological studies.[2] There are eight known species and two subspecies.[1][3]
Species
- Diploptera elliptica Li & Wang, 2015
- Diploptera erythrocephala Princis, 1950
- Diploptera maculata Hanitsch, 1925
- Diploptera minor (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
- Diploptera naevus Li & Wang, 2015
- Diploptera nigrescens Shiraki, 1931
- Diploptera nigrescens nigrescens Shiraki, 1931
- Diploptera nigrescens guani Li & Wang, 2015
- Diploptera parva Princis, 1953
- Diploptera punctata (Eschscholtz, 1822)
References
- ^ a b c LI, XINRAN; WANG, ZONGQING (2015-09-14). "
A taxonomic study of the beetle cockroaches (Diploptera Saussure) from China, with notes on the genus and species worldwide (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Diplopterinae)
". Zootaxa. 4018 (1): 35–56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4018.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 26624027. - ^ Marchal, Elisabeth; Hult, Ekaterina F.; Huang, Juan; Stay, Barbara; Tobe, Stephen S. (2013). "Diploptera punctata as a model for studying the endocrinology of arthropod reproduction and development". General and Comparative Endocrinology. 188: 85–93. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.04.018. PMID 23644152.
- ^ a b LI, XIN-RAN; LI, MENG; WANG, ZONG-QING (2017-09-18). "Preliminary molecular phylogeny of beetle cockroaches ( Diploptera ) and notes on male and female genitalia (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Diplopterinae)". Zootaxa. 4320 (3). ISSN 1175-5334.
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