Corydiidae

Corydiidae, previously known as Polyphagidae,[1] 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.[2][3] One prominent species is the desert cockroach, Arenivaga investigata.

Corydiidae
Temporal range: Barremian–Present
Polyphaga pellucida in the Saint Petersburg Zoological Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Blattodea
Family:
Corydiidae
Subfamilies

Corydiinae
Euthyrrhaphinae
Holocompsinae
Latindiinae
Tiviinae

Synonyms

Polyphagidae

Genera

Corydiinae
  • Anosigamia
  • Arenivaga
  • Austropolyphaga
  • Eremoblatta
  • Ergaula
  • Eucorydia
  • Eupolyphaga
  • Hemelytroblatta
  • Heterogamisca
  • Heterogamodes
  • Homoeogamia
  • Hypercompsa
  • Leiopteroblatta
  • Mononychoblatta
  • Nymphrytria
  • Polyphaga
  • Polyphagina
  • Polyphagoides
  • Therea

Latindiinae
  • Buboblatta
  • Bucolion
  • Compsodes
  • Gapudipentax
  • Latindia
  • Melestora
  • Myrmecoblatta
  • Paralatindia
  • Sinolatindia
  • Stenoblatta

Other
  • Anacompsa
  • Ctenoneura
  • Euthyrrhapha (Euthyrrhaphinae)
  • Holocompsa (Holocompsinae)
  • Homopteroidea
  • Ipisoma
  • Ipolatta
  • Melyroidea
  • Oulopteryx
  • Pholadoblatta
  • Sphecophila (Tiviinae)
  • Tivia (Tiviinae)
  • Zetha

References
  1. 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.
  2. "synonym Polyphagidae Saussure, 1864: Cockroach Species File".
  3. 蟑螂圖鑑 (in Chinese). 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2014-10-13.


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