Giant cockroach

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Giant cockroaches
A male Madagascar hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa
A male Madagascar hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Blaberidae
Genera

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Giant cockroaches, or blaberids (family Blaberidae) are the second largest cockroach family.

[edit] Some species

[edit] Genera

  • Subfamily Blaberinae
  • Achroblatta
  • Anchoblatta
  • Antioquita
  • Archimandrita
  • Aspiduchus
  • Cacoblatta
  • Capucinella
  • Cariacasia
  • Bionoblatta
  • Blaberus
  • Blaptica
  • Brachycola
  • Byrsotria
  • Eublaberus
  • Glomerexis
  • Glyptopeltis
  • Gromphadorhina
  • Hemiblabera
  • Hiereoblatta
  • Hormetica
  • Hyporhicnoda
  • Kemneria
  • Mesoblaberus
  • Minablatta
  • Mioblatta
  • Monachoda
  • Monastria
  • Neorhicnoda
  • Oxycercus
  • Paradicta
  • Parahormetica
  • Petasodes
  • Phoetalia
  • Pseudogyna
  • Sibylloblatta
  • Styphon
  • Subfamily Diplopterinae
  • Calolampra
  • Diploptera
  • Subfamily Epilamprinae
  • Acroporoblatta
  • Anisolampra
  • Aptera (genus)
  • 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
  • Pseudophoraspis
  • Pseudoplatia
  • Rhabdoblatta
  • Rhicnoda
  • Stictolampra
  • Stictomorphna
  • Thorax
  • Ylangella
  • Subfamily Gyninae
  • Alloblatta
  • Evea
  • Gyna
  • Paraprincisaria
  • Paraplecta
  • Princisaria
  • Pseudocalolampra
  • Progonogamia
  • Thliptoblatta
  • Subfamily Panchlorinae
  • Ancaudellia
  • Caeparia
  • Dicellonotus
  • Dolichosphaeria
  • Hemipanesthia
  • Heteroblatta
  • Geoscapheus
  • Macropanesthia
  • Microdina
  • Miopanesthia
  • Mylacrina
  • Neogeoscaphus
  • Panchlora
  • Panesthia
  • Parapanesthia
  • Phortioecoides
  • Proscratea
  • Salganea
  • Subfamily Oxyhaloinae
  • Aeluropoda
  • Ateloblatta
  • Coleoblatta
  • Griffiniella
  • Gromphadorhina
  • Heminauphoeta
  • Henschoutedenia
  • Jagrehnia
  • Leucophaea
  • Nauphoeta
  • Oxyhaloa
  • Pelloblatta
  • Pronauphoeta
  • Subfamily Perisphaeriinae
  • Bantua
  • Compsagis
  • Cyrtotria
  • Derocalymma
  • Ellipsica
  • Elliptoblatta
  • Gymnonyx
  • Hostilia
  • Laxta
  • Neolaxta
  • Perisphaeria
  • Perisphaerus
  • Pilema (Pronaonota)
  • Platysilpha
  • Poeciloblatta
  • Pronaonota
  • Pseudoglomeris
  • Trichoblatta
  • Zuluia
  • Subfamily Pycnoscelinae
  • Pycnoscelus
  • Stilpnoblatta
  • Subfamily Zetoborinae
  • Capucina
  • Lanxoblatta
  • Parasphaeria
  • Phortioeca
  • Schizopilia
  • Schultesia
  • Thanatophyllum
  • Tribonium
  • Zetobora
  • Zetoborella
  • Subfamily uncertain

(see Taxonomy note)

  • Africalolampra
  • Apotrogia
  • Diplopoterina
  • Eustegasta
  • Gynopeltis
  • Hedaia
  • Isoniscus
  • Phenacisma
  • Cryptocercus

[edit] Taxonomy note

Among the genera of uncertain subfamily, Eustegasta and Isoniscus have been removed from subfamily Perisphaeriinae. Cryptocercus is sometimes assigned to a separate subfamily, the Cryptocercidae.


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