Invalid subtaxa: Aethiocarenodea Poinar and Brown 2016, Alienoptera Bai et al. 2016, Blattaria Latreille 1810 [replaced name], Blattariae Latreille 1810 [replaced name], Blattida Latreille 1810, Blattoidea Handlirsch 1906, Blattoptera Brunner 1882
Parent taxon: Dictyoptera according to B. Misof et al. 2014
See also Bai et al. 2016, Béthoux et al. 2011, Bode 1953, Carpenter 1992, Clapham 2015, Eades 2012, Evangelista et al. 2017, Geyer and Kleber 1987, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1911, Hong 1986, Jarzembowski and Schneider 2007, Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004, Martins-Neto and Gallego 2007, Martynov 1937, Müller 1965, Nel et al. 2014, Poinar and Brown 2016, Sharov 1968, Vrsansky 2003, Vrsansky 2005, Vrsansky 2010, Vrsansky et al. 2018 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: Architermes, Baissomantidae, Kinklidoblatta, Mantodea, Protoblattinopsis, Pseudojantaropterix, Qilianiblatta, Raptoblatta, Sinothauma
Subtaxa: Acriditis Anaplectidae Archimulacris Archimylacridae Archimylacris obovata Archoblattinidae Argentinoblattidae Balatronis Blaberoidea Blattariae kliveri Blattariae reisi Blattelidae Blattoidea Blattoidea Blattoidea acuminata Blattoidea agilis Blattoidea bella Blattoidea confusa Blattoidea delicula Blattoidea dictyoneura Blattoidea excellens Blattoidea lobata Blattoidea melanderi Blattoidea minima Blattoidea minuta Blattoidea perbrevis Blattoidea propria Blattoidea relicta Blattoidea sellardsiana Blattoidea separata Blattoidea singularis Blattoidea venusta Blattulidae Blattuloidea Cainoblattinidae Caloblattinoidea Coleopteron dubia Compsoblattidae Corydioidea Cratovitismioidea Delpuenteblattidae Diechoblattinidae Eoblattodea Eotermes Erucoblatta Etoblattina exigua Etoblattina gerablattini Etoblattina inclusa Etoblattina incurvata Etoblattina mensa Etoblattina vulpis Eublattula Gerablattina perita Gerablattina richmondiana Haenoblattina tenuis Hemimylacris convexa Heterogamia antiqua Hsuopterites Irreblatta Isoptera Leptoblattina Lithomylacris kirkbyi Lygobiidae Mancusoblattidae Megalocerca Mesoblattinidae Mesoblattinoidea Mesophonus maculatus Morphna Mutoviidae Mylacridae Mylacridina Necymylacridae Nehevblattella Neomylacridae Oiratia Oryctomastax Parallelophora Parallelophoridae Parapanorpa Paucineuridae Petroblattina Phyllodromiidae Piniblattella Polyphagoidea Poroblattinidae Prochaeradodis Progeotrupes Proteremidae Pseudomylacridae Pseudoplecta Ptiloteuthis Pycnoscelus gardneri Rajharablatta Raphidiomimidae Schizoblattina minor Schizoblattina schucherti Sinoblatta Sinogramma Sinogrammitidae Sooblattella britannica Spiloblattidae Spiloblattinidae Stantonia Subioblattidae Sysciophlebia uralica Umenocoleoidea Ungoneurites Zetobora brunneri
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