🦋 Family

Blaberidae

15 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Blattodea › Blaberidae

Panesthia australis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865

Panesthia australis, the Australian wood cockroach, is a giant cockroach species endemic to Australia, mostly found in eastern Australia.

Opisthoplatia orientalis (Burmeister, 1838)

Opisthoplatia orientalis is a Blattodea cockroach species native to parts of Southern and Eastern Asia.

Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784)

Aptera fusca is a large live-bearing nocturnal herbivorous cockroach native to South Africa's Western Cape fynbos.

Thorax porcellana (Saussure, 1862)

Thorax porcellana is an epilamprid cockroach from South Asia with specialized maternal care that includes nymphs feeding on the mother's haemolymph.

Panchlora nivea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Panchlora nivea, the green cockroach, is a non-pest species often kept as a pet or used as pet food.

Blaberus craniifer Burmeister, 1838

Blaberus craniifer, the death's head cockroach, is a common pet cockroach species native to the Neotropics and introduced to southern Florida.

Blaberus giganteus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Blaberus giganteus is one of the world's largest cockroaches, endemic to Neotropical caves and rainforests.

Blaberus discoidalis Serville, 1838

Blaberus discoidalis, the false death's head cockroach, is a giant blaberid cockroach commonly kept as pet food.

Blaptica dubia (Serville, 1838)

Blaptica dubia, the dubia cockroach, is a South American ovoviviparous cockroach widely used as a feeder insect for captive reptiles and other pets.

Eublaberus distanti (Kirby, 1903)

Eublaberus distanti is a large, flightless cave-dwelling cockroach native to Central and South America.

Diploptera punctata (Eschscholtz, 1822)

Diploptera punctata, the Pacific beetle cockroach, is a viviparous, chemically defended cockroach found across multiple regions.

Laxta granicollis (Saussure, 1862)

Laxta granicollis, the wing-dimorphic bark cockroach, is a Blaberidae species native to Australia.

Pycnoscelus surinamensis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pycnoscelus surinamensis is a burrowing, mostly parthenogenetic cockroach with a broad cosmopolitan distribution linked to moist, warm habitats.

Nauphoeta cinerea (Olivier, 1789)

Nauphoeta cinerea is a speckled cockroach native to northeast Africa that is now an invasive circumtropical species.

Gromphadorhina portentosa (Schaum, 1853)

Gromphadorhina portentosa, the Madagascar hissing cockroach, is a large wingless cockroach native to Madagascar, often kept as a pet.

Related Families

Ectobiidae 29 species Blattidae 16 species Termitidae 11 species Rhinotermitidae 6 species Corydiidae 4 species Kalotermitidae 3 species Archotermopsidae 2 species Hodotermitidae 2 species

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