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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea

Superfamily Blaberoidea

Representative Images

Spotted Mediterranean Cockroach - Ectobius pallidus Casing - Parcoblatta Small Yellow Cockroach - Cariblatta lutea roach id - Pycnoscelus surinamensis Possibly a Wood Roach? - Parcoblatta fulvescens spent ootheca - Blattella asahinai Blattodea - Parcoblatta notha - male Morse's Symploce - Symploce morsei

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Blattodea (Cockroaches and Termites)
Superfamily Blaberoidea

Numbers

2 families, with >40 spp. (of which about a dozen adventive) in ~20 genera in our area(1), ~3,500 spp. in almost 400 genera worldwide(2)

Range

worldwide(2)

Works Cited

1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Beccaloni G.W. (2007‒2023) Cockroach species file
Contributed by v belov on 17 December, 2011 - 1:07pm

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