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Taxonomy
Blatta was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Blattinae, Blattidae, Blattoidea.
It was assigned to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Hemiptera by Linnaeus (1767); to Ulonata by Fabricius (1775); to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764) and Müller (1776); to Orthoptera by Latreille (1796) and Latreille (1802); to Blattidae by Förster (1891); and to Blattinae by Šmídová (2020) and Djernæs and Murienne (2022).
It was assigned to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Hemiptera by Linnaeus (1767); to Ulonata by Fabricius (1775); to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764) and Müller (1776); to Orthoptera by Latreille (1796) and Latreille (1802); to Blattidae by Förster (1891); and to Blattinae by Šmídová (2020) and Djernæs and Murienne (2022).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Blatta Linnaeus p. 424 |
| 1761 | Blatta Linnaeus p. 234 |
| 1762 | Blatta Geoffroy p. 379 |
| 1763 | Blatta Scopoli p. 103 |
| 1764 | Blatta Müller p. 24 |
| 1766 | Blatta Schaeffer |
| 1767 | Blatta Linnaeus p. 687 |
| 1775 | Blatta Fabricius p. 271 |
| 1776 | Blatta Müller p. 99 |
| 1796 | Blatta Latreille p. 79 |
| 1802 | Blatta Latreille p. 269 |
| 1813 | Blattina Germar p. 16 |
| 1891 | Blatta Förster p. 559 |
| 2020 | Blatta Šmídová |
| 2022 | Blatta Djernæs and Murienne |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Blatta Linnaeus 1758
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†Blatta berendti Giebel 1856
†Blatta colorata Heer 1864
†Blatta gedanensis Germar and Berendt 1856
†Blatta pauperata von Heyden 1862
†Blatta persipicillata Dalman 1826
†Blatta succinea Germar 1813
†Blatta sundgaviensis Förster 1891
Invalid names: Blattina Germar 1813 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available