Corydiidae

Corydiidae
Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Present[1]
Polyphaga pellucida in the Saint Petersburg Zoological Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Superfamily: Corydioidea
Family: Corydiidae
Saussure & Zehntner, 1893
Subfamilies

Corydiinae
Euthyrrhaphinae
Holocompsinae
Latindiinae
Tiviinae

Synonyms

Polyphagidae

Corydiidae, previously known as Polyphagidae,[2] 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.[3][4] One prominent species is the desert cockroach, Arenivaga investigata.

  1. ^ Vršanský, P.; Palková, H.; Vršanská, L.; Koubová, I.; Hinkelman, J. (2022). "Mesozoic origin-delayed explosive radiation of the cockroach family Corydiidae Saussure, 1864". Biologia. 78 (6): 1627–1658. doi:10.1007/s11756-022-01279-1. S2CID 254479766.
  2. ^ Beccaloni, G. W.; Eggleton, P. (2011). "Order Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882". In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa. pp. 199–200.
  3. ^ "synonym Polyphagidae Saussure, 1864: Cockroach Species File".
  4. ^ 蟑螂圖鑑 (in Chinese). 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2014-10-13.