Sometimes considered a suborder of order Dictyoptera (treated here as a superorder.) Termites used to be treated as a separate order (Isoptera). The Guide follows classification adopted in (1)
Explanation of Names
Blattaria Latreille 1810
Numbers
~70 spp. of cockroaches and 44 spp. of termites in our area(2)(3); worldwide, ~4,600 spp. in ~500 genera of 7 families of cockroaches and ~3000 spp. in ~300 genera of 9 families of termites (~7,500 spp. in ~770 genera combined)(1)(4)
Overview of our fauna (* –taxa not yet in the guide; classification adapted from(1)(5)):