- Source: Blattoidea
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.
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
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Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kecoak
- Termitidae
- Blattoidea
- Blattidae
- Blattodea
- Dictyoptera
- Cockroach
- Termite
- Cryptocercus
- Anaplectidae
- 1931 in paleontology
- Blaptica dubia