Back صرصوريات عملاقة Arabic صرصوريات عملاقه ARZ Гигантски хлебарки Bulgarian Blabèrids Catalan Blaberidae CEB Blaberidae Spanish سوسریان بزرگ Persian Blaberidae French תיקני ענק HE Blaberidae ID
| Giant cockroaches Temporal range:
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| Adults and subadults of Blaberus craniifer – the death's head cockroach | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Superfamily: | Blaberoidea |
| Family: | Blaberidae Saussure, 1864 |
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Giant cockroaches, or blaberids (family Blaberidae), are the second-largest cockroach family by number of species.[2] Mostly distributed in warmer climates worldwide, this family is based on the American genus Blaberus, but much of the diversity is also found in Africa and Asia.
- ^ Šmídová, L.; Vidlička, L.; Wedmann, S. (2021). "Appearance of the family Blaberidae (Insecta: Blattaria) during the Cretaceous and a review of fossils of this family". Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 321 (1–6): 71–79. doi:10.1127/pala/2021/0109. S2CID 243467634.
- ^ Beccaloni, George; Eggleton, Paul (2013-08-30). "Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 46. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.10. ISSN 1175-5334.