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Blaberidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
Saussure, H.de (1864) Orthopteres Blattides. In Orthoptères de l’Amérique Moyenne. Mémoires pour serveir a l’Histoire Naturelle du Mexique des Antilles et des Etats-Unis. Vol. 18, Issues 3-4, 1–279 pp.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Blattodea
family
Blaberidae

Name

Synonyms
Blaberiens
Gyna obesa Piton, 1940
Gynopeltidae
Gynopeltididae
Perisphaeridae
Homonyms
Blaberidae
Common names
Blaberidi in Italian
Cucarachas gigantes in Spanish
Giant Cockroaches in English
Gyvavedžiai tarakonai in Lithuanian
eleventojó csótányok in Hungarian
giant cockroach in English
giant cockroaches in English
giant cockroaches in English
giant cockroaches in English
jättekackerlackor in Swedish
Блабериды in Russian
Гигантские тараканы in Russian
תיקן ענק in Hebrew
แมลงสาบยักษ์ in Thai
オオゴキブリ科 in Japanese
匍蠊科 in Chinese
硕蠊科 in Chinese
jättekackerlackor in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. Beccaloni & Eggleton (2011) Order Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness
  2. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  3. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  4. Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1865. Nouveau Système des Blattaires., G. Braumüller, Vienna 361
  5. Cockroach Working Group (2025) Cockroach Species File
  6. Deng, Drager, Li, Han, Djernæs, Wang, Martin, Schwartz, Zhang, Kovacs, Lo, Hellemans, Che, Bourguignon, Wang & Evangelista (2026) Blattodea systematics in the genomic age
  7. Deng, Drager, Li, Han, Djernæs, Wang, Martin, Schwartz, Zhang, Kovacs, Lo, Hellemans, Che, Bourguignon, Wang & Evangelista (2026) Blattodea systematics in the genomic age
  8. Deng, Drager, Li, Han, Djernæs, Wang, Martin, Schwartz, Zhang, Kovacs, Lo, Hellemans, Che, Bourguignon, Wang & Evangelista (2026) Blattodea systematics in the genomic age
  9. Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
  10. Hallan, J. (2000-2017). Biology Catalog (2012 version), http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (as at 2012).
  11. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  12. Roth, Louis M., 2003: Systematics and phylogeny of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria). Oriental Insects, vol. 37. 1-186.
  13. Saussure. 1864. Orthoptéres de l'Amerique Moyenne. Mémoire pour servir a l'histoire naturelle du Mexique, des Antilles, etc. III. Blattides. Geneve. Mém. Soc. Phys. hist. Nat. Génève 18(4):230
  14. de Saussure (1864) Orthoptères de l'Amerique moyenne
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