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Blattidae  Latreille, 1810
Taxonomic Serial No.: 102402

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): American cockroaches [English]
  
    oriental cockroaches [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderPolyneoptera   
                               OrderBlattodea Latreille, 1810 – cockroaches, termites  
                                  SuperfamilyBlattoidea Latreille, 1810  
                                     FamilyBlattidae Latreille, 1810 – American cockroaches, oriental cockroaches  
    Direct Children:  
                                        Genus Anenev Vrsansky, Oruzinsky, Sendi, Choufani, El-Halabi and Azar in Vrsansky et al., 2019  
                                        Subfamily Austrostylopyginae Djernaes and Murienne, 2022  
                                        Subfamily Blattinae Latreille, 1810  
                                        Subfamily Duchailluiinae Roth, 2003  
                                        Subfamily Eurycotiinae McKittrick, 1964  
                                        Subfamily Hebardininae Deng and Che, 2022  
                                        Subfamily Polyzosteriinae McKittrick, 1964  
       
                                      FamilyBlattidae Latreille, 1810 incertae sedis  
    Children with Uncertain Position:  
                                        Genus Balatronis Smídová and Lei, 2017  
                                        Genus Cretaperiplaneta Qiu, Che and Z.-Q. Wang in Qiu et al., 2020  
       

 References
       
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  Other Source(s):    
  Source: Cockroach Species File, Database (version Undefined)  
  Acquired: 2024   
  Notes: https://cockroach.speciesfile.org   
  Reference for: Blattidae   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Blattidae, American cockroaches [English]   
       
  Source: Stoetzel, M. B., 1989, database (version 1.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: oriental cockroaches[English]   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Roth, Louis M.  
  Publication Date: 2003   
  Article/Chapter Title: Systematics and phylogeny of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Oriental Insects, vol. 37   
  Page(s): 1-186   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0030-5316   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Blattidae   
       

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