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Cryptocercus
Cryptocercus is a genus of Dictyoptera (cockroaches and allies) and the sole member of its own family Cryptocercidae. Species are known as wood roaches or brown-hooded cockroaches. These roaches are subsocial, their young requiring considerable parental interaction. They also share wood-digesting gut bacteria types with wood-eating termites, and are therefore seen as evidence of a close genetic relationship, that termites are essentially evolved from social cockroaches.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Brown-hooded Cockroach
speciesCryptocercus punctulatus
Cryptocercus wrighti
speciesCryptocercus wrighti
Cryptocercus darwini
speciesCryptocercus darwini
Cryptocercus garciai
speciesCryptocercus garciai
Cryptocercus clevelandi
speciesCryptocercus clevelandi
Cryptocercus kyebangensis
speciesCryptocercus kyebangensis
Cryptocercus relictus
speciesCryptocercus relictus
Cryptocercus hirtus
speciesCryptocercus hirtus
Cryptocercus meridianus
speciesCryptocercus meridianus
Cryptocercus primarius
speciesCryptocercus primarius
Cryptocercus matilei
speciesCryptocercus matilei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 337963.