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Blattoidea  Latreille, 1810
Taxonomic Serial No.: 666640

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Superfamily  
  Synonym(s): Isoptera Brullé, 1832
  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  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  
    Direct Children:  
                                     FamilyAnaplectidae Walker, 1868  
                                     FamilyBlattidae Latreille, 1810 – American cockroaches, oriental cockroaches 
                                     FamilyCryptocercidae Handlirsch, 1925 – brown-hooded cockroaches 
                                     FamilyHodotermitidae Desneux, 1904 – harvester termites 
                                     FamilyKalotermitidae Froggart, 1897 – dampwood termites, drywood termites 
                                     FamilyLamproblattidae McKittrick, 1964  
                                     FamilyMesoblattinidae Handlirsch, 1906  
                                     FamilyOulopterygidae Rehn, 1951  
                                     FamilyRhinotermitidae Froggart, 1897 – subterranean termites 
                                     FamilyTermitidae Latreille, 1802 – higher termites 
                                     FamilyTermopsidae Holmgren, 1911 – rottenwood termites 
                                     FamilyTryonicidae McKittrick and Mackerras, 1965  
       
                                   SuperfamilyBlattoidea Latreille, 1810 incertae sedis  
    Children with Uncertain Position:  
                                     GenusCercoula Li and Huang, 2021  
                                     GenusHypercercoula Qiu, 2022  
       

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  Source: Cockroach Species File, Database (version Undefined)  
  Acquired: 2024   
  Notes: https://cockroach.speciesfile.org   
  Reference for: Blattoidea   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Beccaloni, George W., and Paul Eggleton / Zhang, Z.-Q., ed.   
  Publication Date: 2013   
  Article/Chapter Title: Order Blattodea. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 3703   
  Page(s): 46-48   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5326   
  Notes: Online ISSN: 1175-5334: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/   
  Reference for: Blattoidea   
       
  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   
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  Reference for: Blattoidea   
       

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