Blaberidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Blattodea

Familia: Blaberidae
Subfamiliae (11): Blaberinae - Diplopterinae - Epilamprinae - Geoscapheinae - Gyninae - Oxyhaloinae - Panchlorinae - Panesthiinae - Perisphaeriinae - Pycnoscelinae - Zetoborinae

Overview of genera (165)

Achatiblatta – Achroblatta – Acroporoblatta – Aeluropoda – Africalolampra – Alloblatta – Alphelixia – Alvarengaia – Ancaudellia – Anchoblatta – Anisolampra – Antioquita – Apotrogia – Apsidopis – Aptera – Archimandrita – Aspiduchus – Ataxigamia – Ateloblatta – Audreia – Bantua – Bionoblatta – Blaberus – Blaptica – Blepharodera – Brachycola – Byrsotria – Cacoblatta – Caeparia – Calolampra – Calolamprodes – Capucina – Capucinella – Cariacasia – Colapteroblatta – Coleoblatta – Compsagis – Compsolampra – Cyrtonotula – Cyrtotria – Decoralampra – Derocalymma – Derocardia – Dicellonotus – Diplopoterina – Diploptera – Dolichosphaeria – Dryadoblatta – Elfridaia – Ellipsica – Elliptoblatta – Epilampra – Eublaberus – Eustegasta – Evea – Frumentiforma – Galiblatta – Geoscapheus – Glomerexis – Glyptopeltis – Griffiniella – Gromphadorhina – Gymnonyx – Gyna – Gynopeltis – Haanina – Hedaia – Hemiblabera – Heminauphoeta – Hemipanesthia – Henschoutedenia – Heteroblatta – Hiereoblatta – Homalopteryx – Hormetica – Hostilia – Hyporhicnoda – Isoniscus – Jagrehnia – Kemneria – Lanxoblatta – Laxta – Leucophaea – Litopeltis – Lucihormetica – Macropanesthia – Mesoblaberus – Microdina – Minablatta – Mioblatta – Miopanesthia – Miroblatta – Molytria – Monachoda – Monastria – Morphna – Mylacrina – Nauclidas – Nauphoeta – Neogeoscaphus – Neolaxta – Neorhicnoda – Notolampra – Opisthoplatia – Oxycercus – Oxyhaloa – Panchlora – Panesthia – Paradicta – Parahormetica – Parapanesthia – Paraplecta – Paraprincisaria – Parasphaeria – Pelloblatta – Perisphaeria – Perisphaerus – Petasodes – Phenacisma – Phlebonotus – Phoetalia – Phoraspis – Phortioeca – Phortioecoides – Pilema – Pinaconota – Placoblatta – Platysilpha – Poeciloblatta – Poeciloderrhis – Poroblatta – Princisaria – Progonogamia – Pronaonota – Pronauphoeta – Proscratea – Proscratea – Pseudocalolampra – Pseudoglomeris – Pseudogyna – Pseudophoraspis – Pseudoplatia – Pycnoscelus – Rhabdoblatta – Rhabdoblattella – Rhicnoda – Rhyparobia – Salganea – Schistopeltis – Schizopilia – Schultesia – Sibylloblatta – Stictolampra – Stictomorphna – Stilpnoblatta – Styphon – Thanatophyllum – Thliptoblatta – Thorax – Tribonium – Trichoblatta – Ylangella – Zetobora – Zetoborella – Zuluia

Check: Annamoblatta – Biolleya – Simandoa
Name

Blaberidae Von Wattenwyl, 1865

References

Template:Von Wattenwyl, 1865

Lucañas, C.C. 2017. Some new brachypterous cockroaches (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Epilamprinae) from the Philippines. Zootaxa 4294(1): 130–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.1.9 Reference page.
Li, X-R., Wang, L-L. & Wang, Z-Q. 2018. Rediscovered and new perisphaerine cockroaches from SW China with a review of subfamilial diagnosis (Blattodea: Blaberidae). Zootaxa 4410(2): 251–290. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.2 Reference page.
Li, X-R. & Wang, Z-Q. 2016. Perisphaerinae Brunner von Wattenwyl and Hyposphaeria Lucas are valid names concealed by the unavailable names Perisphaeriinae and Perisphaeria Burmeister (Blattodea, Blaberidae). ZooKeys 574: 75–80. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.574.7063.Reference page.
Lopes, S.M.; De Oliveira, E.H.; Khouri, A. 2010: Reexamination of the five species of Blaberidae deposited in the Entomological Collection of the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zootaxa 2683: 66–68. Preview Reference page.
Vršanský, P. et al. 2013: Paleocene origin of the cockroach families Blaberidae and Corydiidae: Evidence from Amur River region of Russia. Zootaxa 3635(2): 117–126. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3635.2.2 Reference page.
Wang, Y-S., Chen, R., Jin, D-T., Che, Y-L. & Wang, Z-Q. 2021. New record of Cyrtonotula Uvarov, 1939 (Blaberidae, Epilamprinae) from China, with three new species based on morphological and COI data. Zookeys1021: 127–143. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1021.59526 Open access Reference page.
Wang, Z-Z., Yang, R. & Wang, Z-Q. 2017. First record of Rhabdoblattella (Blaberidae, Epilamprinae) from China with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 4294(3): 381–388. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.3.8. Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Giant cockroaches
italiano: Blaberidi
русский: Блабериды
中文: 硕蠊科

Byrsotria fumigata

Eustegasta poecila

Giant cockroaches, or blaberids (family Blaberidae) are the second-largest cockroach family by number of species.[1]

Notable species

Notable species within this family include:

Cape mountain cockroach – Aptera fusca
Dwarf cave cockroach – Blaberus atropos=Blaberus fusca
Death's head cockroach – Blaberus craniifer
False death's head cockroach – Blaberus discoidalis
Dubia cockroach – Blaptica dubia
Green banana cockroach – Panchlora nivea
Madagascar hissing cockroach – Gromphadorhina portentosa
Speckled cockroach – Nauphoeta cinerea
Surinam cockroach – Pycnoscelus surinamensis
Giant burrowing cockroach – Macropanesthia rhinoceros

Genera
Panesthia

Subfamily Attaphilinae
Attaphila
Subfamily Blaberinae
Achroblatta
Anchoblatta
Antioquita
Archimandrita
Aspiduchus
Cacoblatta
Capucinella
Cariacasia
Bionoblatta
Blaberus
Blaptica
Brachycola
Byrsotria
Eublaberus
Glomerexis
Glyptopeltis
Gromphadorhina
Hemiblabera
Hiereoblatta
Hormetica
Hyporhicnoda
Kemneria
Lucihormetica
Mesoblaberus
Minablatta
Mioblatta
Monachoda
Monastria
Neorhicnoda
Oxycercus
Paradicta
Parahormetica
Petasodes
Phoetalia
Pseudogyna
Sibylloblatta
Styphon
Subfamily Diplopterinae
Calolampra
Diploptera
Subfamily Epilamprinae
Acroporoblatta
Anisolampra
Aptera
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
Phortioeca
Pseudophoraspis
Pseudoplatia
Rhabdoblatta
Rhicnoda
Stictolampra
Stictomorphna
Thorax
Ylangella
Subfamily Geoscapheinae
Geoscapheus
Macropanesthia
Neogeoscapheus
Parapanesthia
Subfamily Gyninae
Alloblatta
Evea
Gyna
Paraprincisaria
Paraplecta
Princisaria
Progonogamia
Thliptoblatta
Subfamily Oxyhaloinae
Aeluropoda
Ateloblatta
Coleoblatta
Griffiniella
Gromphadorhina
Heminauphoeta
Henschoutedenia
Jagrehnia
Leucophaea
Nauphoeta
Oxyhaloa
Pelloblatta
Pronauphoeta
Subfamily Panchlorinae
Achroblatta
Anchoblatta
Biolleya
Panchlora
Pelloblatta
Subfamily Panesthiinae
Ancaudellia
Annamoblatta
Caeparia
Microdina
Miopanesthia
Panesthia
Salganea
Subfamily Perisphaerinae[2]
Bantua
Compsagis
Cyrtotria
Derocalymma
Ellipsica
Elliptoblatta
Gymnonyx
Hostilia
Hyposphaeria
Laxta
Neolaxta
Perisphaerus (= Perisphaeria)
Pilema (= Pronaonota)
Platysilpha
Poeciloblatta
Poeciloderrhis[3]
Pseudoglomeris
Pseudocalolampra
Trichoblatta
Zuluia
Subfamily Pycnoscelinae
Pycnoscelus
Stilpnoblatta
Subfamily Zetoborinae
Capucina
Lanxoblatta
Parasphaeria
Phortioeca
Schizopilia
Shultesia
Thanatophyllum
Tribonium
Zetobora
Zetoborella
Subfamily uncertain
Africalolampra
Apotrogia
Diplopoterina
Eustegasta
Gynopeltis
Hedaia
Isoniscus
Phenacisma

Taxonomy note

Among the genera of uncertain subfamily, Eustegasta and Isoniscus have been removed from subfamily Perisphaerinae .
References

Beccaloni, George; Eggleton, Paul (2013-08-30). "Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 46. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.10. ISSN 1175-5334.
Perisphaerinae Brunner von Wattenwyl and Hyposphaeria Lucas are valid names concealed by the unavailable names Perisphaeriinae and Perisphaeria Burmeister (Blattodea, Blaberidae)

De Oliveira Cardoso Da Silva, Leonardo; Lopes, Sonia Maria (2018). "Six new species of Poeciloderrhis from Brazil (Blattaria: Blaberidae) with a new record and a new combination". Zoologia. 35: 1–10. doi:10.3897/zoologia.35.e12483. Retrieved 3 April 2018.

"Blaberinae". uniprot.org. Retrieved 13 July 2021.