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Corydioidea

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Superfamily of cockroaches

Corydioidea
Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Polyphaga pellucida in the Saint Petersburg Zoological Museum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Superfamily: Corydioidea

Corydioidea is a superfamily of insects in the order Blattodea containing the cockroaches and termites. It contains two extant families, Corydiidae and Nocticolidae, comprising about fifty genera and two hundred and fifty species, along with the extinct family Liberiblattinidae. Members of this superfamily are found worldwide, mostly in hot, arid habitats.

References

  1. Vršanský, P.; Palková, H.; Vršanská, L.; Koubová, I.; Hinkelman, J. (2022). "Mesozoic origin-delayed explosive radiation of the cockroach family Corydiidae Saussure, 1864". Biologia. 78 (6): 1627–1658. doi:10.1007/s11756-022-01279-1. S2CID 254479766.
  2. Beccaloni, G. W.; Eggleton, P. (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. Zootaxa. pp. 199–200.
  3. Integrated Taxonomic Information System entry
  4. "Superfamily Corydioidea". BugGuide. Retrieved 2015-08-27.
Taxon identifiers
Corydioidea


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