Typical Cockroaches and Termites
Blattoidea
Blattoidea is a superfamily of termites and cockroaches in the order Blattodea. There are about 10 families and at least 780 described species in Blattoidea.
3 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Household Cockroaches and Allies
epifamilyBlattoidae
Termites
epifamilyTermitoidae
Brown-hooded Cockroaches
epifamilyCryptocercoidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 129743.