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Dictyoptera
Dictyoptera (from Greek δίκτυον ''diktyon'' "net" and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing") is an insect superorder that includes two extant orders of polyneopterous insects: the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches together) and the order Mantodea (mantises). All modern Dictyoptera have short ovipositors and typically lay oothecae. The oldest fossils of Dictyoptera from the Late Carboniferous, referred to as " roachoids" have long ovipositors and did not lay oothecae. The oldest modern oothecae-laying dictyopterans date to the Late Triassic. __TOC__ Classification and phylogeny The use of the term Dictyoptera has changed over the years, and while largely out of use for much of the last century, it is becoming more widely used. It has usually been considered a superorder, with Isoptera, Blattodea and Mantodea being its three orders. In some classifications, however, Dictyoptera is shifted to order status and in others the order Isoptera has been subsumed under Blattodea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alienopteridae
Alienopteridae is an extinct family of dictyopterans, known from the Early Cretaceous to the Eocene epoch. They are noted for their unusual combination of features not found in other dictyopterans. Description Alienopterid nymphs vary in morphology, some are superficially ant-like, while others are more robust. In adult alienopterids, the first set of wings are reduced into shortened sclerotised scale-like structures. The compound eyes are large, and the head generally triangular shaped and able to rotate. Taxonomy It was originally assigned to its own order Alienoptera by Bai et al., 2016. It was reassigned to the dictyopteran superfamily Umenocoleoidea as sister family to the beetle-like Umenocoleidae by Vršanský ''et al.'' (2018), and a more recent analysis similarly places Alienopteridae and Umenocoleidae as sister taxa within Dictyoptera, but placing both lineages outside of Blattodea. A 2021 study revived the order Alienoptera for the clade containing Alienopte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roachoid
"Roachoids", also known as "Roachids", "Blattoids" or Eoblattodea, are members of the stem group of Dictyoptera (the group containing modern cockroaches, termites and praying mantises). They generally resemble cockroaches, but most members, unlike modern dictyopterans, have generally long external ovipositors, and are thought not to have laid ootheca like modern dictyopterans. Systematic position Cockroaches are popularly thought to be an ancient order of insects, with their origins in the Carboniferous. However, since the middle of the 20th century it has been known that the primitive cockroach insects found fossilized in Palaeozoic strata are the forerunners not only of modern cockroaches and termites but also of mantises.Grimaldi, D (1997): A fossil mantis (Insecta: Mantoidea) in Cretaceous amber of New Jersey, with comments on early history of Dictyoptera. ''American Museum Novitates'' 3204: 1–11 The origin of these groups from a blattopteran stock are now generally thou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Termite
Termites are a group of detritivore, detritophagous Eusociality, eusocial cockroaches which consume a variety of Detritus, decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, Plant litter, leaf litter, and Humus, soil humus. They are distinguished by their moniliform antennae and the soft-bodied, unpigmented worker caste for which they have been commonly termed "white ants"; however, they are not ants but highly Apomorphy and synapomorphy, derived cockroaches. About 2,997 extant species are currently described, 2,125 of which are members of the family Termitidae. Termites comprise the infraorder Isoptera, or alternatively the Taxonomic rank#All ranks, epifamily Termitoidae, within the order Blattodea (the cockroaches). Termites were once classified in a separate Order (biology), order from cockroaches, but recent phylogenetic studies indicate that they evolved from cockroaches, as they are deeply nested within the group, and the sister group to wood-eating cockroaches of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umenocoleoidea
Dictyoptera (from Greek δίκτυον ''diktyon'' "net" and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing") is an insect superorder that includes two extant orders of polyneopterous insects: the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches together) and the order Mantodea (mantises). All modern Dictyoptera have short ovipositors and typically lay oothecae. The oldest fossils of Dictyoptera from the Late Carboniferous, referred to as "Roachoid, roachoids" have long ovipositors and did not lay oothecae. The oldest modern oothecae-laying dictyopterans date to the Late Triassic. __TOC__ Classification and phylogeny The use of the term Dictyoptera has changed over the years, and while largely out of use for much of the last century, it is becoming more widely used. It has usually been considered a superorder, with Isoptera, Blattodea and Mantodea being its three orders. In some classifications, however, Dictyoptera is shifted to order status and in others the order Isoptera has been subsumed under Bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous ( ) is a Geologic time scale, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma. It is the fifth and penultimate period of the Paleozoic era and the fifth period of the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon. In North America, the Carboniferous is often treated as two separate geological periods, the earlier Mississippian (geology), Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian (geology), Pennsylvanian. The name ''Carboniferous'' means "coal-bearing", from the Latin ("coal") and ("bear, carry"), and refers to the many coal beds formed globally during that time. The first of the modern "system" names, it was coined by geologists William Conybeare (geologist), William Conybeare and William Phillips (geologist), William Phillips in 1822, based on a study of the British rock succession. Carboniferous is the per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umenocoleidae
Umenocoleidae is an extinct family of dictyopteran insects known from the Cretaceous. They are considered to be closely related to the Alienopteridae. They were originally considered to be beetles due to their beetle-like morphology, with sclerotised elytra-like forewings. This was probably an adaptation for living under bark and in other tight spaces. Systematics After * †'' Umenocoleus'' Chen and Tan 1973 Dalazi Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Zhonggou Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Albian), Jinju Formation, South Korea, Early Cretaceous (Albian) * †'' Ponopterix'' Vršanský and Grimaldi 1999 Crato Formation, Brazil, Early Cretaceous (Aptian) * †'' Blattapterix'' Vršanský 2003 Xiagou Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian) * †'' Elytropterix'' Vršanský 2003 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian * †'' Petropterix'' Vršanský 2003 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Zaza Formation, Russia, Kitadani Formation, Japan, Early Cretaceous (Aptian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temnopteryx (cockroach)
''Temnopteryx'' is a genus of cockroaches. The genus includes '' Temnopteryx phalerata'', the Cape Zebra Cockroach, which is endemic to the Fynbos biome of the Western Cape province of South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O .... References Cockroach genera {{cockroach-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grylloblattodea
Grylloblattidae, commonly known as the icebugs or ice crawlers, is a family of extremophile (psychrophile) and wingless insects that live in the cold on top of mountains and the edges of glaciers. It is the only member of Grylloblattodea, which is generally considered an order. Alternatively, Grylloblattodea, along with Mantophasmatodea (rock crawlers), have been ranked as suborders of the order Notoptera. Grylloblattids are wingless insects mostly less than 3 cm long, with a head resembling that of a cockroach, with long antennae and having elongated cerci arising from the tip of their abdomen. They cannot tolerate warmth—most species will die at —and many species have small distribution ranges. Overview Grylloblattids, ice crawlers or icebugs puzzled the scientists who discovered them in 1914, E.M. Walker and T.B. Kurata; the first species named was '' Grylloblatta campodeiformis'', which means "cricket-cockroach shaped like a '' Campodea''" (a kind of two-pronged b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek language, Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an Phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree because it does not show how ancestors are related to descendants, nor does it show how much they have changed, so many differing evolutionary trees can be consistent with the same cladogram. A cladogram uses lines that branch off in different directions ending at a clade, a group of organisms with a last common ancestor. There are many shapes of cladograms but they all have lines that branch off from other lines. The lines can be traced back to where they branch off. These branching off points represent a hypothetical ancestor (not an actual entity) which can be inferred to exhibit the traits shared among the terminal taxa above it. This hypothetical ancestor might then provide clues about the order of evolution of various features, adaptation, and other e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anaplectidae
Anaplectidae is a family of cockroaches in the order Blattodea. Previously placed as a subfamily of the Ectobiidae there are presently (2020) two genera and more than 90 described species in Anaplectidae. Genera These two genera belong to the family Anaplectidae: * '' Anaplecta'' Burmeister, 1838 * ''Maraca A maraca ( , , ), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. Maracas, also known as tamaracas, were rattles of d ...'' Hebard, 1926 References External links * {{Taxonbar, from=Q85741487 Cockroaches Cockroach families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corydiidae
Corydiidae, previously known as Polyphagidae, is a family of the order Blattodea (cockroaches). Many are known as sand cockroaches. The family is divided into five subfamilies, comprising some 40 genera. One prominent species is the desert cockroach, '' Arenivaga investigata''. Genera Corydiinae Selected genera: * '' Anisogamia'' * '' Arenivaga'' * '' Eremoblatta'' * '' Eucorydia'' * '' Hemelytroblatta'' * ''Polyphaga'' * '' Therea'' Latindiinae # '' Buboblatta'' Hebard, 1920 # '' Bucolion'' Rehn, 1932: ''Bucolion stygius'' # '' Compsodes'' Hebard, 1917 # '' Gapudipentax'' Lucañas, 2018 # '' Latindia'' Stål, 1860 # '' Melestora'' Stål, 1860 # '' Myrmecoblatta'' Mann, 1914 # '' Paralatindia'' Saussure, 1868 # '' Sinolatindia'' Qiu, Che & Wang, 2016 # '' Stenoblatta'' Walker, 1868 #†'' Okruhliak'' Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Kimmeridgian and Burmese Amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian Tiviinae # '' Simblerastes'' Rehn & Hebard, 1927 # '' Sphecophila'' Shelford, 1907 # '' Tivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamproblattidae
Lamproblattidae is a small family of South and Central American cockroaches in the order Blattodea Blattodea is an order (biology), order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites. Formerly, termites were considered a separate order, Isoptera, but genetics, genetic and molecular evidence suggests they evolved from within the cockroach .... It consists of three genera and 10 species: Note: linked pages within work also used. *''Eurycanthablatta'' Fritzsche & Zompro, 2008 :* ''E. pugionata'' Fritzsche & Zompro, 2008: Brazil *''Lamproblatta'' Hebard, 1919 :* ''L. albipalpus'' Hebard, 1919: Panama; Colombia; Brazil (Amapá) :* ''L. ancistroides'' Rehn, 1930: Colombia; Venezuela :* ''L. flavomaculata'' Princis, 1946: Colombia :* ''L. gorgonis'' Rehn, 1930: Colombia (Gorgona Island) :* ''L. meridionalis'' (Bruner, 1906): Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad) :* ''L. mimetes'' Rehn, 1930: Brazil (Mato Grosso) :* ''L. romani'' Rehn, 1930: Brazil (Amazonas) :* ''L. zamoren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
