Diploptera
{{Short description|Genus of cockroaches}}
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| image = Diploptera punctata adult.jpg
| image_caption = Adult Diploptera punctata
| taxon = Diploptera
| authority = de Saussure, 1864
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}
Diploptera, occasionally called beetle cockroaches, is a genus of blaberid cockroaches in the monotypic subfamily Diplopterinae. Cockroaches of this genus resemble beetles, with hardened tegmina and cross-folded hindwings. They live in tropical forests in South China and Southeast Asia, and Pacific islands including Hawaii.{{Cite journal|last1=Li |first1=X. |last2=Wang |first2=Z. |date=2015-09-14 |title=A taxonomic study of the beetle cockroaches (Diploptera Saussure) from China, with notes on the genus and species worldwide (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Diplopterinae) |journal=Zootaxa |language=en |volume=4018 |issue=1 |pages=35–56 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4018.1.2 |pmid=26624027 |issn=1175-5334}} They are viviparous cockroaches and are therefore used for insect endocrinological studies.{{Cite journal|last1=Marchal|first1=Elisabeth|last2=Hult|first2=Ekaterina F.|last3=Huang|first3=Juan|last4=Stay|first4=Barbara|last5=Tobe|first5=Stephen S.|title=Diploptera punctata as a model for studying the endocrinology of arthropod reproduction and development|journal=General and Comparative Endocrinology|volume=188|pages=85–93|doi=10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.04.018|pmid=23644152|year=2013}}
Species
The Cockroach Species File[https://cockroach.speciesfile.org/otus/856968/overview Cockroach Species File: genus Diploptera Saussure, 1864 (retrieved 26 October 2023)]{{Cite journal|last1=Li|first1=X.-R. |last2=Li |first2=M. |last3=Wang |first3=Z.-Q. |date=2017-09-18 |title=Preliminary molecular phylogeny of beetle cockroaches ( Diploptera ) and notes on male and female genitalia (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Diplopterinae) |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4320.3.7 |journal=Zootaxa |language=en |volume=4320 |issue=3 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4320.3.7 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription }} lists:
- Diploptera bicolor {{small|Hanitsch, 1925}}
- Diploptera elliptica {{small|Li & Wang, 2015}}
- Diploptera erythrocephala {{small|Princis, 1950}}
- Diploptera maculata {{small|Hanitsch, 1925}}
- Diploptera minor {{small|(Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)}}
- Diploptera naevus {{small|Li & Wang, 2015}}
- Diploptera nigrescens {{small|Shiraki, 1931}}
- D. n. nigrescens {{small|Shiraki, 1931}}
- D. n. guani {{small|Li & Wang, 2015}}
- Diploptera parva {{small|Princis, 1953}}
- Diploptera punctata {{small|(Eschscholtz, 1822)}} - type species (as Diploptera silpha {{small|Saussure}})
References
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