Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Hexapoda Infraclass Neoptera Higher classification Ectobiidae | Phylum Arthropoda Subclass Pterygota Superorder Dictyoptera Rank Subfamily | |
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Lower classifications German cockroach, Parcoblatta, Pennsylvania wood cockroach, Loboptera, Blattella asahinai | ||
Blattellinae is a subfamily of the cockroach family Ectobiidae (formerly "Blattellidae"). It includes the global household pest Blattella germanica, the German cockroach. It contains roughly 70 genera.
Selected genera
Saltoblattella, which contains the single species Saltoblattella montistabularis, was described in 2009 and preliminarily placed in the Blattellinae subfamily, although its position within the family Ectobiidae was not clear.
References
Blattellinae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA