Corydiinae is a subfamily of the order
Blattodea
Blattodea is an order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites. Formerly, termites were considered a separate order, Isoptera, but genetic and molecular evidence suggests they evolved from within the cockroach lineage, cladistically m ...
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cockroach
Cockroaches (or roaches) are a Paraphyly, paraphyletic group of insects belonging to Blattodea, containing all members of the group except termites. About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are we ...
es). Many are known as sand cockroaches. The subfamily, comprising about 20 genera, contains half the genera in Corydiidae.
One prominent species is the desert cockroach, ''
Arenivaga investigata''.
Genera
Corydiinae
* ''
Anosigamia''
* ''
Arenivaga''
* ''
Austropolyphaga''
* ''
Eremoblatta''
* ''
Ergaula''
* ''
Eucorydia''
* ''
Eupolyphaga''
* ''
Hemelytroblatta''
* ''
Heterogamisca''
* ''
Heterogamodes''
* ''
Homoeogamia''
* ''
Hypercompsa''
* ''
Leiopteroblatta''
* ''
Mononychoblatta''
* ''
Nymphrytria''
* ''
Polyphaga
Polyphaga is the largest and most diverse suborder of beetles. It comprises 144 families in 16 superfamilies, and displays an enormous variety of specialization and adaptation, with over 350,000 described species, or approximately 90% of the b ...
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* ''
Polyphagina''
* ''
Polyphagoides''
* ''
Therea''
References
Corydiidae
Cockroaches
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