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''Diploptera'', occasionally called beetle cockroaches, is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of blaberid cockroaches in the monotypic subfamily Diplopterinae. Cockroaches of this genus resemble beetles, with hardened tegmina and cross-folded hindwings. They live in
tropical forest Tropical forests are forested ecoregions with tropical climates – that is, land areas approximately bounded by the Tropic of Cancer, tropics of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Capricorn, but possibly affected by other factors such as prevailing ...
s in South China and
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, and
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including
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. They are viviparous cockroaches and are therefore used for insect endocrinological studies.


Species

The ''Cockroach Species File''Cockroach Species File: genus ''Diploptera'' Saussure, 1864 (retrieved 26 October 2023)
/ref> lists: * '' Diploptera bicolor'' * '' Diploptera elliptica'' * '' Diploptera erythrocephala'' * '' Diploptera maculata'' * '' Diploptera minor'' * '' Diploptera naevus'' * '' Diploptera nigrescens'' ** ''D. n. nigrescens'' ** ''D. n. guani'' * '' Diploptera parva'' * '' Diploptera punctata'' - type species (as ''Diploptera silpha'' )


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3014241 Blattodea genera Cockroaches Insects of Asia