Polyphagidae

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Sand cockroaches

Polyphaga pellucida in the Saint Petersburg Zoological Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattaria
Family:	Polyphagidae
Subfamilies
Euthyrrhaphinae Holocompsinae Latindiinae Polyphaginae Tiviinae

The Polyphagidae are a family of the order Blattaria (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.

Cockroach

Families

Blaberidae
- Blaberus
- Diploptera
- Panchlora
Blattellidae
- Parcoblatta
- Supella
- Temnopteryx
Blattidae
- Blatta
- Drymaplaneta
- Periplaneta
- Polyzosteria
Polyphagidae
- Euthyrrhapha
- Holocompsa
Nocticolidae

In popular
culture

Film	Bug Twilight of the Cockroaches Joe's Apartment

Literature	Archy and Mehitabel The Revolt of the Cockroach People Cockroach Cooties The Exterminators The Passion According to G.H. Iran newspaper cockroach cartoon controversy Cockroach

Other	"La Cucaracha" Shinbone Alley (film) The Cockroach "War of the Coprophages" Bad Mojo Freaky Stories Oggy and the Cockroaches

Other topics

Extant Blattodea families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Dictyoptera

Polyphagoidea

Blaberoidea

Blattoidea

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Cryptocercidae (brown-hooded cockroaches)

Termitoidae (termites)	Mastotermitidae (giant northern termite) Termopsidae (dampwood termites) Hodotermitidae (harvester termites) Kalotermitidae Rhinotermitidae Serritermitidae Termitidae

Classification is based on Inward et al. (2007). Italic are paraphyletic groups.

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