Blaberidae

Giant cockroaches
A male Madagascar hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Blaberidae
Genera

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Giant cockroaches, or blaberids (family Blaberidae) are the second largest cockroach family.

Notable species

Genera

Panesthia

  • Subfamily Blaberinae
    • Achroblatta
    • Anchoblatta
    • Antioquita
    • Archimandrita
    • Aspiduchus
    • Cacoblatta
    • Capucinella
    • Cariacasia
    • Bionoblatta
    • Blaberus
    • Blaptica
    • Brachycola
    • Byrsotria
    • Eublaberus
    • Glomerexis
    • Glyptopeltis
    • Gromphadorhina
    • Hemiblabera
    • Hiereoblatta
    • Hormetica
    • Hyporhicnoda
    • Kemneria
    • Lucihormetica
    • Mesoblaberus
    • Minablatta
    • Mioblatta
    • Monachoda
    • Monastria
    • Neorhicnoda
    • Oxycercus
    • Paradicta
    • Parahormetica
    • Petasodes
    • Phoetalia
    • Pseudogyna
    • Sibylloblatta
    • Styphon
  • Subfamily Diplopterinae

  • Subfamily Epilamprinae
    • Acroporoblatta
    • Anisolampra
    • Aptera (genus)
    • Apsidopis
    • Ataxigamia
    • Audreia
    • Blepharodera
    • Calolamprodes
    • Colapteroblatta
    • Compsolampra
    • Cyrtonotula
    • Derocardia
    • Dryadoblatta
    • Elfridaia
    • Epilampra
    • Galiblatta
    • Haanina
    • Homalopteryx
    • Litopeltis
    • Miroblatta
    • Molytria
    • Morphna
    • Nauclidas
    • Notolampra
    • Opisthoplatia
    • Phlebonotus
    • Phoraspis
    • Pinaconota
    • Placoblatta
    • Poroblatta
    • Phortioeca
    • Pseudophoraspis
    • Pseudoplatia
    • Rhabdoblatta
    • Rhicnoda
    • Stictolampra
    • Stictomorphna
    • Thorax
    • Ylangella
  • Subfamily Gyninae
    • Alloblatta
    • Evea
    • Gyna
    • Paraprincisaria
    • Paraplecta
    • Princisaria
    • Pseudocalolampra
    • Progonogamia
    • Thliptoblatta
  • Subfamily Panchlorinae
    • Achroblatta
    • Anchoblatta
    • Biolleya
    • Panchlora
    • Pelloblatta
  • Subfamily Panesthiinae
    • Ancaudellia
    • Annamoblatta
    • Caeparia
    • Microdina
    • Miopanesthia
    • Panesthia
    • Salganea
    • ?Dicellonotus
    • ?Dolichosphaeria
    • ?Hemipanesthia
    • ?Heteroblatta
    • ?Geoscapheus
    • ?Macropanesthia
    • ?Mylacrina
    • ?Neogeoscaphus
    • ?Parapanesthia
    • ?Phortioecoides
    • ?Proscratea
  • Subfamily Oxyhaloinae
    • Aeluropoda
    • Ateloblatta
    • Coleoblatta
    • Griffiniella
    • Gromphadorhina
    • Heminauphoeta
    • Henschoutedenia
    • Jagrehnia
    • Leucophaea
    • Nauphoeta
    • Oxyhaloa
    • Pelloblatta
    • Pronauphoeta
  • Subfamily Perisphaeriinae
    • Bantua
    • Compsagis
    • Cyrtotria
    • Derocalymma
    • Ellipsica
    • Elliptoblatta
    • Gymnonyx
    • Hostilia
    • Laxta
    • Neolaxta
    • Perisphaeria
    • Perisphaerus
    • Pilema (Pronaonota)
    • Platysilpha
    • Poeciloblatta
    • Pronaonota
    • Pseudoglomeris
    • Trichoblatta
    • Zuluia
  • Subfamily Pycnoscelinae
    • Pycnoscelus
    • Stilpnoblatta
  • Subfamily Zetoborinae
    • Capucina
    • Lanxoblatta
    • Parasphaeria
    • Phortioeca
    • Schizopilia
    • Schultesia
    • Thanatophyllum
    • Tribonium
    • Zetobora
    • Zetoborella
  • Subfamily uncertain

(see Taxonomy note)

    • Africalolampra
    • Apotrogia
    • Diplopoterina
    • Eustegasta
    • Gynopeltis
    • Hedaia
    • Isoniscus
    • Phenacisma
    • Cryptocercus

Taxonomy note

Among the genera of uncertain subfamily, Eustegasta and Isoniscus have been removed from subfamily Perisphaeriinae. Cryptocercus is sometimes assigned to a separate subfamily, the Cryptocercidae.

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