Blaberidae

Giant cockroaches, or blaberids (family Blaberidae) are the second-largest cockroach family by number of species.[1]

Giant cockroaches
A male Madagascar hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina oblongonota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Superfamily:	Blaberoidea
Family:	Blaberidae
Genera
See text

Notable species

Notable species within this family include:

• Cape mountain cockroach – Aptera fusca
• Dwarf cave cockroach – Blaberus atropos=Blaberus fusca
• Death's head cockroach – Blaberus craniifer
• False death's head cockroach – Blaberus discoidalis
• Dubia cockroach – Blaptica dubia
• Green banana cockroach – Panchlora nivea
• Madagascar hissing cockroach – Gromphadorhina portentosa
• Speckled cockroach – Nauphoeta cinerea
• Surinam cockroach – Pycnoscelus surinamensis
• Giant burrowing cockroach – Macropanesthia rhinoceros

Genera

Panesthia

• Subfamily Attaphilinae
  • Attaphila
• Subfamily Blaberinae
  • Achroblatta
  • Anchoblatta
  • Antioquita
  • Archimandrita
  • Aspiduchus
  • Cacoblatta
  • Capucinella
  • Cariacasia
  • Bionoblatta
  • Blaberus
  • Blaptica
  • Brachycola
  • Byrsotria
  • Eublaberus
  • Glomerexis
  • Glyptopeltis
  • Gromphadorhina
  • Hemiblabera
  • Hiereoblatta
  • Hormetica
  • Hyporhicnoda
  • Kemneria
  • Lucihormetica
  • Mesoblaberus
  • Minablatta
  • Mioblatta
  • Monachoda
  • Monastria
  • Neorhicnoda
  • Oxycercus
  • Paradicta
  • Parahormetica
  • Petasodes
  • Phoetalia
  • Pseudogyna
  • Sibylloblatta
  • Styphon
• Subfamily Diplopterinae
  • Calolampra
  • Diploptera
• Subfamily Epilamprinae
  • Acroporoblatta
  • Anisolampra
  • Aptera (genus)
  • Apsidopis
  • Ataxigamia
  • Audreia
  • Blepharodera
  • Calolamprodes
  • Colapteroblatta
  • Compsolampra
  • Cyrtonotula
  • Derocardia
  • Dryadoblatta
  • Elfridaia
  • Epilampra
  • Galiblatta
  • Haanina
  • Homalopteryx
  • Litopeltis
  • Miroblatta
  • Molytria
  • Morphna
  • Nauclidas
  • Notolampra
  • Opisthoplatia
  • Phlebonotus
  • Phoraspis
  • Pinaconota
  • Placoblatta
  • Poroblatta
  • Phortioeca
  • Pseudophoraspis
  • Pseudoplatia
  • Rhabdoblatta
  • Rhicnoda
  • Stictolampra
  • Stictomorphna
  • Thorax
  • Ylangella
• Subfamily Geoscapheinae
  • Geoscapheus
  • Macropanesthia
  • Neogeoscapheus
  • Parapanesthia
• Subfamily Gyninae
  • Alloblatta
  • Evea
  • Gyna
  • Paraprincisaria
  • Paraplecta
  • Princisaria
  • Progonogamia
  • Thliptoblatta
• Subfamily Oxyhaloinae
  • Aeluropoda
  • Ateloblatta
  • Coleoblatta
  • Griffiniella
  • Gromphadorhina
  • Heminauphoeta
  • Henschoutedenia
  • Jagrehnia
  • Leucophaea
  • Nauphoeta
  • Oxyhaloa
  • Pelloblatta
  • Pronauphoeta
• Subfamily Panchlorinae
  • Achroblatta
  • Anchoblatta
  • Biolleya
  • Panchlora
  • Pelloblatta
• Subfamily Panesthiinae
  • Ancaudellia
  • Annamoblatta
  • Caeparia
  • Microdina
  • Miopanesthia
  • Panesthia
  • Salganea
• Subfamily Perisphaerinae[2]
  • Bantua
  • Compsagis
  • Cyrtotria
  • Derocalymma
  • Ellipsica
  • Elliptoblatta
  • Gymnonyx
  • Hostilia
  • Hyposphaeria
  • Laxta
  • Neolaxta
  • Perisphaerus (= Perisphaeria)
  • Pilema (= Pronaonota)
  • Platysilpha
  • Poeciloblatta
  • Poeciloderrhis[3]
  • Pseudoglomeris
  • Pseudocalolampra
  • Trichoblatta
  • Zuluia
• Subfamily Pycnoscelinae
  • Pycnoscelus
  • Stilpnoblatta
• Subfamily Zetoborinae
  • Capucina
  • Lanxoblatta
  • Parasphaeria
  • Phortioeca
  • Schizopilia
  • Shultesia
  • Thanatophyllum
  • Tribonium
  • Zetobora
  • Zetoborella
• Subfamily uncertain
  • Africalolampra
  • Apotrogia
  • Diplopoterina
  • Eustegasta
  • Gynopeltis
  • Hedaia
  • Isoniscus
  • Phenacisma

Taxonomy note

Among the genera of uncertain subfamily, Eustegasta and Isoniscus have been removed from subfamily Perisphaerinae .

References

1. Beccaloni, George; Eggleton, Paul (2013-08-30). "Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 46. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.10. ISSN 1175-5334.
2. Perisphaerinae Brunner von Wattenwyl and Hyposphaeria Lucas are valid names concealed by the unavailable names Perisphaeriinae and Perisphaeria Burmeister (Blattodea, Blaberidae)
3. De Oliveira Cardoso Da Silva, Leonardo; Lopes, Sonia Maria (2018). "Six new species of Poeciloderrhis from Brazil (Blattaria: Blaberidae) with a new record and a new combination". Zoologia. 35: 1–10. doi:10.3897/zoologia.35.e12483. Retrieved 3 April 2018.