Corydioidea

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Corydioidea
Polyphaga pellucida in the Saint Petersburg Zoological Museum
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Corydioidea

Corydioidea is a superfamily of insects in the order Blattodea, the cockroaches and termites. It contains about fifty genera and two hundred and fifty species. Members of this superfamily are found worldwide, mostly in hot, arid habitats.[1]

It contains the family Corydiidae, previously known as Polyphagidae. Many species are known as sand cockroaches.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Superfamily Corydioidea". BugGuide. Retrieved 2015-08-27.
  2. ^ Beccaloni, G. W.; Eggleton, P. (2011). "Order Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882". In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. pp. 199–200. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Integrated Taxonomic Information System entry