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    Blattodea is an order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites. Formerly, termites were considered a separate order, Isoptera, but genetic and...
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    Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects belonging to the order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats...
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    (Insecta, Blattodea, Ectobiidae)" [Description and illustration of some species of Nyctiborinae from Colombia and Costa Rica (Insecta, Blattodea, Ectobiidae)]...
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    that includes two extant orders of polyneopterous insects: the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches together) and the order Mantodea (mantises)...
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    mantis. The closest relatives of mantises are termites and cockroaches (Blattodea), which are all within the superorder Dictyoptera. Mantises are sometimes...
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    cockroach or amber forest cockroach, is a species belonging to the order Blattodea and is a type of wood cockroach originally from southern Europe. It is...
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    Ectobiidae (formerly Blattellidae) is a family of the order Blattodea (cockroaches). This family contains many of the smaller common household pest cockroaches...
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    Blattidae is a cockroach family in the order Blattodea containing several of the most common household cockroaches. Notable species include: Blatta orientalis:...
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    hindwings. Where the anal area of the hindwing is large, as in Orthoptera and Blattodea, the whole of this part may be folded under the anterior part of the wing...
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    Smith, Kambhampati, 1999 Beccaloni, G. & P. Eggleton. (2013). Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q.(Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level...
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    Phasmatodea superorder Blattopteroidea (senior name: Pandictyoptera) order Blattodea order Mantodea subdivision Paraneoptera order Hemiptera suborder Auchenorrhyncha...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A cockroach is an insect of the order Blattodea. Cockroach may also refer to: Cockroach (novel), a 2008 novel by Rawi...
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    Anaplectidae is a family of cockroaches in the order Blattodea. Previously placed as a subfamily of the Ectobiidae there are presently (2020) two genera...
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    Corydiidae, previously known as Polyphagidae, is a family of the order Blattodea (cockroaches). Many are known as sand cockroaches. The family is divided...
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    opisthognathous head is positioned diagonally, such as in species of Blattodea and some Coleoptera. The mouthparts vary greatly between insects of different...
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  •   Extinct in the wild (EW): 1 species   Critically endangered (CR): 195 species   Endangered (EN): 343 species   Vulnerable (VU): 608 species   Near threatened...
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    repeat elements. Around 90% of the genome can be found in other members of Blattodea. The genome codes for a large number of chemoreceptor families, including...
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    Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets) Mantodea (praying mantises) Blattodea (cockroaches and termites) Dermaptera (earwigs) Odonata (dragonflies and...
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    Nocticolidae is a small family in the order Blattodea (cockroaches). It consists of only 32 known species in 9 genera. They are found in Africa, Asia...
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    Retrieved 13 December 2013. "Species Shelfordella lateralis (Walker, 1868): Blattodea Species File". Species File. Retrieved 13 December 2013. Asia (central);...
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    a small family of South and Central American cockroaches in the order Blattodea. It consists of three genera and 10 species: Eurycanthablatta Fritzsche...
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  • of cockroaches of Texas, including all species of cockroaches (order Blattodea) found in the state of Texas as of 2001. Blattella asahinai (Asian field...
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    cockroach". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 30 March 2018. "Allpet Roaches;Blattodea Rearing". Allpet. Retrieved 2019-07-15. Davis, Shkora (2015). "Blaberus...
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    Corydioidea is a superfamily of insects in the order Blattodea containing the cockroaches and termites. It contains two extant families, Corydiidae and...
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    the giant soil-burrowing cockroach Macropanesthia rhinoceros Saussure (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Geoscapheinae): analysis with respect to age, sex and location"...
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    Roger E. (2007). "Confirmation of Asian Cockroach Blatella Asahinai (Blattodea: Blattelidae) Introduction to Texas Based on Genetics, Morphology, and...
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    The Grimmen Formation is a Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) geological formation in northeastern Germany, primarily exposed in the Grimmen and Klein Lehmhagen...
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    S2CID 243467634. Beccaloni, George; Eggleton, Paul (2013-08-30). "Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level...
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  •   Extinct in the wild (EW): 1 species   Critically endangered (CR): 195 species   Endangered (EN): 343 species   Vulnerable (VU): 608 species   Near threatened...
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  •   Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species   Critically endangered (CR): 393 species   Endangered (EN): 626 species   Vulnerable (VU): 1,081 species   Near...
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