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Blattodea

Blattodea

Taxonomic placing: Insecta, Hemimetabola.

An order of insects that contains the cockroaches and the termites (Isoptera), formerly considered to be in different orders. Together they consist of about 7.600 species, about 3.000 termites and approximately 4.600 cockroaches. They usually live in warm and humid habitates.

References

Abe, T., Bignell, D.E., Higashi, M., 2000. Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbiosis, Ecology. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht/Norwell.

Beccaloni, G. and Eggleton, P. 2013. Order Blattodea. Zootaxa 3703: 046-048.

Chouvenc, T., Su, N.-Y. and Kenneth Grace, J. 2011. Fifty years of attempted biological control of termites – Analysis of a failure. Biological Control 59: 69-82.

Websites

General:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/342386

http://Blattodea.SpeciesFile.org

For cockroaches: https://www.google.co.il/search?q=blattodea++image&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZh9GUhLDTAhWSyRoKHc0QCy8QsAQIHw&biw=1280&bih=686#spf=1

For termites: https://www.google.co.il/search?q=blattodea++image&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZh9GUhLDTAhWSyRoKHc0QCy8QsAQIHw&biw=1280&bih=686#tbm=isch&q=termite+images&spf=199