Family Blattidae Latreille 1810 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Blattoidae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1810. Considérations Générales sur l'Ordre Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides, et des Insectes; Avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres, Disposés en Familles 1-444

Parent taxon: Blattoidae according to W. Deng et al. 2026

See also Djernæs and Murienne 2022, Evangelista et al. 2017, Evangelista et al. 2019, Liu et al. 2023, Müller 1965, Sellards 1904, Wappler 2003 and Zhang 1989

Sister taxon: Tryonicidae

Subtaxa: Blattinae Cretaperiplaneta Latiblatta Polyzosteriinae Protectobiinae Protoblattinae Strictiblatta Zhujiblatta

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Type: Blatta

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Tanzania (2 collections)

• Miocene of China (3), Germany (1)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1)

• Eocene of China (2), Germany (6), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1), United States (2: Colorado)

• Paleocene of France (3)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), China (2), Myanmar (2), South Korea (1)

Total: 33 collections including 44 occurrences

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