Blaberidae
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| Giant cockroaches | |
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| Adults and subadults of Blaberus craniifer- the Death's Head Cockroach | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Superfamily: | Blaberoidea |
| Family: | Blaberidae |
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Giant cockroaches, or blaberids (family Blaberidae) are the second-largest cockroach family by number of species.[1]
Notable species[edit]
Notable species within this family include:
- Cape mountain cockroach – Aptera fusca
- Dwarf cave cockroach – Blaberus atropos=Blaberus fusca
- Death's head cockroach – Blaberus craniifer
- False death's head cockroach – Blaberus discoidalis
- Dubia cockroach – Blaptica dubia
- Green banana cockroach – Panchlora nivea
- Madagascar hissing cockroach – Gromphadorhina portentosa
- Speckled cockroach – Nauphoeta cinerea
- Surinam cockroach – Pycnoscelus surinamensis
- Giant burrowing cockroach – Macropanesthia rhinoceros
Genera[edit]
- Subfamily Attaphilinae
- Subfamily Blaberinae
- Achroblatta
- Anchoblatta
- Antioquita
- Archimandrita
- Aspiduchus
- Cacoblatta
- Capucinella
- Cariacasia
- Bionoblatta
- Blaberus
- Blaptica
- Brachycola
- Byrsotria
- Eublaberus
- Glomerexis
- Glyptopeltis
- Gromphadorhina
- Hemiblabera
- Hiereoblatta
- Hormetica
- Hyporhicnoda
- Kemneria
- Lucihormetica
- Mesoblaberus
- Minablatta
- Mioblatta
- Monachoda
- Monastria
- Neorhicnoda
- Oxycercus
- Paradicta
- Parahormetica
- Petasodes
- Phoetalia
- Pseudogyna
- Sibylloblatta
- Styphon
- Subfamily Diplopterinae
- Subfamily Epilamprinae
- Acroporoblatta
- Anisolampra
- Aptera
- 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
- Phortioeca
- Pseudophoraspis
- Pseudoplatia
- Rhabdoblatta
- Rhicnoda
- Stictolampra
- Stictomorphna
- Thorax
- Ylangella
- Subfamily Geoscapheinae
- Subfamily Gyninae
- Subfamily Oxyhaloinae
- Subfamily Panchlorinae
- Subfamily Panesthiinae
- Subfamily Perisphaerinae[2]
- Subfamily Pycnoscelinae
- Subfamily Zetoborinae
- Subfamily uncertain
Taxonomy note[edit]
Among the genera of uncertain subfamily, Eustegasta and Isoniscus have been removed from subfamily Perisphaerinae[citation needed].
References[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blaberidae.
Wikispecies has information related to Blaberidae.
- ^ Beccaloni, George; Eggleton, Paul (2013-08-30). "Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 46. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.10. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Perisphaerinae Brunner von Wattenwyl and Hyposphaeria Lucas are valid names concealed by the unavailable names Perisphaeriinae and Perisphaeria Burmeister (Blattodea, Blaberidae)
- ^ De Oliveira Cardoso Da Silva, Leonardo; Lopes, Sonia Maria (2018). "Six new species of Poeciloderrhis from Brazil (Blattaria: Blaberidae) with a new record and a new combination". Zoologia. 35: 1–10. doi:10.3897/zoologia.35.e12483. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- "Blaberinae". uniprot.org. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
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