Blattoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Dictyoptera
Ordo: Blattodea
Superfamilia: Blattoidea
Epifamiliae (3): Blattoidae – Cryptocercoidae – Termitoidae
Overview of familiae (16 + 2†)

Archotermopsidae – Anaplectidae – Blattidae – Cryptocercidae – Hodotermitidae – Kalotermitidae – Lamproblattidae – Mastotermitidae – Oulopterygidae – Rhinotermitidae – Serritermitidae – Stolotermitidae – Stylotermitidae – Termitidae – Termopsidae – Tryonicidae
†Archeorhinotermitidae – †Cratomastotermitidae
Name

Blattoidea Latreille, 1810
References
Primary references

Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, pp. i-xii + 13–467 [+ 1 (errata)]. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Beccaloni, G.W. & Eggleton, P. 2011. Order Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882. Pp 199-200 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . (PDF) Reference page.
Beccaloni, G. & Eggleton, P. 2013. Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2013. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa 3703(1): 46–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.10 Open access. Reference page.

Vernacular names
中文: 蜚蠊总科

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.[1][2]

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.[3][4]

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.[5][6]
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

"Blattoidea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
"Blattoidea Superfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
Beccaloni, George W.; Eggleton, Paul (2013). Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). "Order Blattodea. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa. 3148. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.10.
Beccaloni, G.W. (2019). "Superfamily Blattoidea Latreille, 1810". Cockroach species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
Shaw, Scott R. Planet of the bugs: evolution and the rise of insects. Chicago. pp. 74–75. ISBN 9780226163758.

McGhee, George R. Carboniferous giants and mass extinction: the late Paleozoic Ice Age world. New York. p. 99. ISBN 9780231180979.

Further reading

Atkinson, Thomas H.; Koehler, Philip G.; Patterson, Richard S. (1991). "Catalog and Atlas of the Cockroaches of North America North of Mexico". Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America. 78: 1–85. ISBN 978-9991575872. ISSN 0071-0717.