The Tryonicidae are a family of
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.
Biodiversity and distribution
Two genera containing 17 species are currently confirmed as belonging to this family.
Table 1: Number of species of Tryonicidae in each region in which it is present (A=adventive, E=endemic, I=indigenous)
Notes
* Beccaloni & Eggleton's (2011) figures of '10 genera, 47 species' presumably does not take into account Murienne's (2009) publication (they do not cite it)
* According to Murienne (2009: 49), the tribe
Methanini certainly belongs to the
Blattidae
Blattidae is a cockroach family in the order Blattodea containing several of the most common household cockroaches. Some notable species include:
* ''Blatta orientalis'': Oriental cockroach,
* Common shining cockroach: (''Drymaplaneta commun ...
:
Polyzosteriinae, as probably does the group of New Caledonian endemic genera ''
Angustonicus'', ''
Pallidionicus'', ''
Pellucidonicus'', ''
Punctulonicus'', and ''
Rothisilpha''
* A report has been published of an unidentified endemic "tryonicine" from New Zealand, in addition to the adventive ''
Tryonicus parvus'', but details are too sketchy at present to accept this record.
[Macfarlane, R.P. ''et al''. 2010: Phylum Arthropoda subphylum Hexapoda: Protura, springtails, Diplura, and insects. Pp. 233-467 ''in'': Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010: ''New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils''. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand.]
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References
Further reading
* Klass, K.-D.; Meier, R. 2006: A phylogenetic analysis of Dictyoptera (Insecta) based on morphological characters. ''Entomologische Abhandlungen'', 63(1-2): 3-50
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* McKittrick, F.A.; Mackerras, M.J. 1965: Phyletic relationships within the Blattidae. ''Annals of the Entomological Society of America'', 58(2): 224-230
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External links
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Cockroach families