Corydioidea

Corydioidea
Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Present
Polyphaga pellucida in the Saint Petersburg Zoological Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Superfamily: Corydioidea

Corydioidea is a superfamily of insects in the order Blattodea. It contains two extant families, Corydiidae and Nocticolidae, comprising about fifty genera and two hundred and fifty species, along with the extinct families Liberiblattinidae and Manipulatoridae. Members of this superfamily are found worldwide, mostly in hot, arid habitats.

References

  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. ↑ Integrated Taxonomic Information System entry
  4. ↑ Vršanský, Peter; Bechly, Günter (1 April 2015). "New predatory cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria: Manipulatoridae fam.n.) from the Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber". Geologica Carpathica. 66 (2): 133–138. doi:10.1515/geoca-2015-0015.
  5. ↑ "Superfamily Corydioidea". BugGuide. Retrieved 2015-08-27.