Blattodea

Translingual

Etymology

Blatta +‎ -odea

Proper noun

Blattodea

1. A taxonomic order within the class Insecta – cockroaches and termites.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Polyneoptera - superorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Blaberoidea, Blattoidea, Corydioidea - superfamilies
  • Archotermopsidae, Blaberidae, Blattidae, Corydiidae, Cryptocercidae, Ectobiidae, Lamproblattidae, Nocticolidae, Tryonicidae; Hodotermitidae, Kalotermitidae, Mastotermitidae, Rhinotermitidae, Serritermitidae, Stolotermitidae, Stylotermitidae, Termitidae - families
    • †Blattulidae, †Caloblattinidae, †Fuziidae, †Liberiblattinidae, †Mutoviidae, †Mylacridae, †Phyloblattidae, †Raphidiomimidae, †Umenocoleidae - extinct families

Coordinate terms

• (order in Polyneoptera): Dermaptera, Embioptera, Grylloblattodea, Mantodea, Mantophasmatodea, Orthoptera, Phasmida, Plecoptera, Zoraptera - orders

Related terms

• Blattellidae

References

• Blattodea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Blattodea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Blattodea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248