Overview of familiae (19 + 11†)

Anaplectidae – Archotermopsidae – Blaberidae – Blattidae – Corydiidae – Cryptocercidae – Ectobiidae – Hodotermitidae – Kalotermitidae – Lamproblattidae – Mastotermitidae – Nocticolidae – Rhinotermitidae – Serritermitidae – Stolotermitidae – Stylotermitidae – Termitidae – Termopsidae – Tryonicidae – †Archeorhinotermitidae – †Blattulidae – †Caloblattinidae – †Cratomastotermitidae – †Fuziidae – †Liberiblattinidae – †Mutoviidae – †Mylacridae – †Phyloblattidae – †Raphidiomimidae

Synonyms

• Blattaria Latreille, 1810
• Blattariae

Primary references

• Brunner von Wattenwyl, K. 1882. Prodromus der europaischen Orthopteren. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Beccaloni, G.W. & Eggleton, P. 2011. Order Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882. Pp 199-200 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . (PDF) Reference page. 
• Beccaloni, G. & Eggleton, P. 2013. Order Blattodea. Zootaxa 3703(1): 46–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.10 . Reference page. 
• Crespo, F.A., Valverde, A. del C. & Iglesias, M.S. 2010. Catalogue of Blattaria (Insecta) from Argentina. Zootaxa 2726: 1–33. Preview Reference page. 
• Djernæs, M., Klass, K.-D., Picker, M.D. & Damgaard, J. 2012. Phylogeny of cockroaches (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattodea), with placement of aberrant taxa and exploration of out-group sampling. Systematic Entomology 37(1): 65–83. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00598.x . Reference page. 
• Evangelista, D.A., Bourne, G. & Ware, J.L. 2014. Species richness estimates of Blattodea s.s. (Insecta: Dictyoptera) from northern Guyana vary depending upon methods of species delimitation. Systematic Entomology 39(1): 150–158. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12043 Reference page. 
• Grandcolas, P. 1996. The phylogeny of cockroach families: a cladistic appraisal of morpho-anatomical data. Canadian journal of zoology 74(3): 508–527. DOI: 10.1139/z96-059 . Reference page. 
• Hristov, G.H. & Chobanov, D.P. 2016. An annotated checklist and key to the Bulgarian cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattodea). Zootaxa 4154(4): 351–388. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.4.1. Reference page. 
• Inward, D., Beccaloni, G. & Eggleton, P. 2007. Death of an order: a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study confirms that termites are eusocial cockroaches. Biology letters 3(3): 331–335. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0102 . Reference page. 
• Klass, K.-D. & Meier, R. 2006. A phylogenetic analysis of Dictyoptera (Insecta) based on morphological characters. Entomologische Abhandlungen 63(1–2): 3–50. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Lopes, S.M. & de Oliveira, E. 2018. Validation of the names of eight species of Blattaria according to the rules of Zoological Nomenclature. Zootaxa 4379(3): 436–438. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.3.7 Reference page. 
• Miskelly, J. & Paiero, S.M. 2019. Mantodea, Blattodea, Orthoptera, Dermaptera, and Phasmida of Canada. Pp 255–269 In Langor, D.W. & Sheffield, C.S. (eds.). The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods. ZooKeys 819: 520 pp. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.819.27241 Reference page. 
• Roth, L.M. 2003. Systematics and phylogeny of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria). Oriental Insects 37(1): 1–186. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2003.10417344 . Reference page. 
• Vidlička, Ľ. 2013. Cockroaches (Blattaria) of Ecuador—checklist and history of research. Zootaxa 3599(5): 401–445. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.5.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Cockroach Species File
• Blattodea – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.