Family Blattidae Latreille 1810 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Blattidae

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: Blattoidea according to J. L. Liu et al. 2023

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

Sister taxa: Anaplectidae, Blattoidae, Cercoula, Hypercercoula, Kittrickea, Lamproblattidae, Mesoblattinidae, Paleoblattidae, 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 (2), Germany (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)

Total: 32 collections including 43 occurrences

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