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Household Cockroaches and Allies
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Household Cockroaches and Allies

Blattoidae

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.

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5 branches of this group, most-observed first

Household Cockroaches

familyBlattidae

Anaplectidae

familyAnaplectidae

Tryonicid Cockroaches

familyTryonicidae

Lamproblattidae

familyLamproblattidae

Oulopterygidae

familyOulopterygidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 709252.