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Encyclopedia > Blaberidae
Giant Cockroaches
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Order: Blattodea
Family: Blaberidae
Genera

Blaberus
Diploptera
Laxta
Leucophaea
Macropanesthia
Nauphoeta
Panchlora
Pycnoscelus
Rhyparobia
Ref: ITIS 102419 (http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=102419) 2004-9-26

The Blaberidae is a family whose common name is the Giant Cockroaches.


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Blaberidae (524 words)
Grandcolas, P. Monophylie et structure phylogenetique des (Blaberinae + Zetoborinae + Gyninae + Diplopterinae) (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae).
The evolution of soil-burrowing cockroaches (Blattaria: Blaberidae) from wood-burrowing ancestors following an invasion of the latter from Asia into Australia.
Roth, L. Africalolampra ehrmanni new genus and species, and the male of Paraplecta parva Princis (Blattaria: Blaberidae).
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DNA sequence of a ~430 base pair portion of the mitochondrial small ribosomal subunit gene from representatives of Blattidae, Blattellidae, Blaberidae and Cryptocercus, previously published by Kambhampati (1995) and Kambhampati et al.
Polyphagidae is indicated as a sister group to the Blattidae+Cryptocercus complex, suggesting that Polyphagidae may belong to the superfamily Blattoidea rather than to Blaberoidea as proposed by McKittrick (1964).
Blaberidae and Blattellidae were sister groups as previously proposed.
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