WAlienopteridae is an extinct family of dictyopterans, known from the Mid-Cretaceous to Eocene. It was originally assigned to its own order Alienoptera by Bai et al, 2016. It was reassigned to the dictyopteran superfamily Umenocoleoidea as sister family to Umenocoleidae by Vršanský et al. (2018), and a more recent analysis similarly places Alienopteridae and Umenocoleidae as sister taxa within Dictyoptera, but placing both lineages outside of Blattodea. The majority of the alienopterid genera are known from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber found in Myanmar; though an additional two genera are from the Albian Crato Formation (Brazil), and the two youngest genera are from the middle Eocene Green River Formation. Some taxa have been suggested as mimics of various hymenopterans, including bees and ants. However this was mostly rejected in another study. Some taxa were probably predators adapted to moving through dense foliage.
WAnaplectidae is a family of cockroaches in the order Blattodea. Previously placed as a subfamily of the Ectobiidae there are presently (2020) two genera and more than 90 described species in Anaplectidae.
WGiant cockroaches, or blaberids are the second-largest cockroach family by number of species.
WBlattidae is a cockroach family in the order Blattodea containing several of the most common household cockroaches. Some notable species include:Blatta orientalis: Oriental cockroach, Common shining cockroach: Florida woods cockroach: Periplaneta spp: American cockroach, Australian cockroach, Brown cockroach, Smokybrown cockroach Shelfordella spp: Turkestan cockroach Botany Bay cockroach:
WCorydiidae, previously known as Polyphagidae, is a family of the order Blattodea (cockroaches). Many are known as sand cockroaches. The family is divided into five subfamilies, comprising some 40 genera. One prominent species is the desert cockroach, Arenivaga investigata.
WCryptocercus is a genus of Dictyoptera and the sole member of its own family Cryptocercidae. Species are known as wood roaches or brown-hooded cockroaches. These roaches are subsocial, their young requiring considerable parental interaction. They also share wood-digesting gut bacteria types with wood-eating termites, and are therefore seen as evidence of a close genetic relationship, that termites are essentially evolved from social cockroaches.
WEctobiidae is a family of the order Blattodea (cockroaches). This family contains many of the smaller common household pest cockroaches, among others. They are sometimes called wood cockroaches. A few notable species include:Asian cockroach Blattella asahinai German cockroach Blattella germanica Small yellow cockroach Cariblatta lutea Brown-banded cockroach Supella longipalpa European native cockroaches - genera including Ectobius, Capraiellus, Phyllodromica and Planuncus Parcoblatta spp. including the: Fulvous wood cockroach P. fulvescens Pennsylvania woods cockroach Parcoblatta pennsylvanica Virginia wood cockroach Parcoblatta virginica
WLamproblattidae is a small family of South and Central American cockroaches in the order Blattodea. It consists of three genera and 10 species:Eurycanthablatta Fritzsche & Zompro, 2008E. pugionata Fritzsche & Zompro, 2008: BrazilLamproblatta Hebard, 1919L. albipalpus Hebard, 1919: Panama; Colombia; Brazil (Amapá) L. ancistroides Rehn, 1930: Colombia; Venezuela L. flavomaculata Princis, 1946: Colombia L. gorgonis Rehn, 1930: Colombia L. meridionalis : Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad) L. mimetes Rehn, 1930: Brazil L. romani Rehn, 1930: Brazil (Amazonas) L. zamorensis : Ecuador; PeruLamproglandifera Roth, 2003L. flavoglandis Roth, 2003: Brazil
WNocticolidae is a small family in the order Blattodea (cockroaches). It consists of only 32 known species in 9 genera. They are found in Africa, Asia and Australia. Most live in cave habitats, although a few are associated with termites. Cave adapted species are known from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber, making them the oldest extant cavernicolous organisms.
WThe Tryonicidae are a family of cockroaches.