Family Blaberidae Saussure 1864 (giant cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Blaberidae

Alternative spelling: Blaberiens

Full reference: H. Saussure. 1864. Orthoptères de l'amérique moyennne. Mémoires Pour Servir a l'Histoire Naturelle du Mexique, des Antilles et des États-Unis, Troisième Mémoire 1-279

Parent taxon: Orkrasomeria according to D. Evangelista et al. 2021

See also Djernæs et al. 2020, Evangelista et al. 2017, Evangelista et al. 2019, Vršanský and Anisyutkin 2008 and Wappler 2003

Sister taxa: Blattellidae, Nyctiboridae

Subtaxa: Blaberites Diplopterinae Epilamprinae Eustegasta Gyna obesa Gyninae Hongoblatta Panchlorinae Pycnoscelinae Zetoborinae

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)

• Oligocene of Germany (1)

• Eocene of Brazil (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Germany (3), the Russian Federation (1), United States (4: Colorado)

• Paleocene of France (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Cretaceous of Hong Kong (1), Japan (1), Myanmar (1)

Total: 17 collections including 20 occurrences

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