Blattoidea#Cockroaches
{{short description|Superfamily of cockroaches and termites}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Archiblatta beccarii (36870587092).jpg
| image_caption = Cockroach, Archiblatta beccarii
| taxon = Blattoidea
| authority = Latreille, 1810
}}
File:Pacific Coast Dampwood Termite - Zootermopsis angusticollis, Delta, British Columbia.jpg
Blattoidea is a superfamily of cockroaches and termites in the order Blattodea. There are about 17 families and more than 4,100 described species in Blattoidea.
The 12 families of termites are sometimes considered members of the suborder Isoptera, but recent phylogenetic analysis places them within the cockroach superfamily Blattoidea. Within Blattoidea, the termites are grouped under the epifamily Termitoidae.
The great coal deposits of the Carboniferous Period have been attributed in part to the lack of wood-consuming insects such as blattoids, which do not appear in the fossil record until the late Carboniferous.{{cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Scott R. |title=Planet of the bugs: evolution and the rise of insects |location=Chicago |isbn=9780226163758 |pages=74–75}}{{cite book |last1=McGhee |first1=George R. |title=Carboniferous giants and mass extinction: the late Paleozoic Ice Age world |location=New York |isbn=9780231180979 |page=99}}
Families
These 17 families belong to the superfamily Blattoidea:
=Cockroaches=
Epifamily Blattoidae
- Anaplectidae Walker, 1868
- Blattidae Latreille, 1810
- Lamproblattidae McKittrick, 1964
- Tryonicidae McKittrick & Mackerras, 1965
Epifamily Cryptocercoidae
- Cryptocercidae Handlirsch, 1925 (brown-hooded cockroaches)
=Termites=
Epifamily Termitoidae
- Archotermopsidae Engel et al., 2009 (rottenwood termites)
- Hodotermitidae Desneux, 1904
- Kalotermitidae Froggart, 1897 (drywood termites)
- Mastotermitidae Desneux 1904
- Rhinotermitidae Froggart, 1897 (subterranean termites)
- Serritermitidae Holmgren, 1910
- Stolotermitidae Holmgren, 1910
- Stylotermitidae Holmgren & Holmgren, 1917
- Termitidae Latreille, 1802 (higher termites)
- † Archeorhinotermitidae Krishna, 2003
- † Cratomastotermitidae Engel et al., 2009
- † Termopsidae Holmgren, 1911
References
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{{Cite web| title=Blattoidea Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=666640
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| accessdate=2019-04-13
}}
{{Cite web| title=Blattoidea Superfamily Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/601959
| website=BugGuide.net
| accessdate=2019-04-13
}}
{{Cite web
| accessdate = 2019-04-13
| title = Superfamily Blattoidea Latreille, 1810
| website = Cockroach species file online, Version 5.0
| date = 2019
| last1 = Beccaloni | first1 = G.W.
| url = http://cockroach.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1178159
}}
{{Cite journal
| title = Order Blattodea. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness
| date = 2013
| last1 = Beccaloni | first1 = George W.
| last2 = Eggleton | first2 = Paul
| editor-last1 = Zhang | editor-first1 = Z.-Q.
| url = https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3703.1.10
| journal = Zootaxa
| volume = 3148
| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.10| doi-access = free
}}
}}
Further reading
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- {{Cite journal
| title = Catalog and Atlas of the Cockroaches of North America North of Mexico
| date = 1991
| last1 = Atkinson | first1 = Thomas H.
| last2 = Koehler | first2 = Philip G.
| last3 = Patterson | first3 = Richard S.
| journal = Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America
| volume = 78| pages = 1–85
| isbn = 978-9991575872
| issn = 0071-0717
}}
{{refend}}
External links
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- {{Commons category-inline|Blattoidea}}
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