Diploptera, occasionally called beetle cockroaches, is a genus of blaberid cockroaches in the monotypic subfamily Diplopterinae. Cockroaches of this genus resemble beetles, with hardened tegmina and cross-folded hindwings. They live in tropical forests in South China and Southeast Asia, and Pacific islands including Hawaii.[1][2] They are viviparous cockroaches and are therefore used for insect endocrinological studies.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Family: | Blaberidae |
| Subfamily: | Diplopterinae |
| Genus: | Diploptera de Saussure, 1864 |
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Species
editThe Cockroach Species File[1][2][4] lists:
- Diploptera bicolor Hanitsch, 1925
- Diploptera elliptica Li & Wang, 2015
- Diploptera erythrocephala Princis, 1950
- Diploptera maculata Hanitsch, 1925
- Diploptera minor (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
- Diploptera naevus Li & Wang, 2015
- Diploptera nigrescens Shiraki, 1931
- D. n. nigrescens Shiraki, 1931
- D. n. guani Li & Wang, 2015
- Diploptera parva Princis, 1953
- Diploptera punctata (Eschscholtz, 1822) - type species (as Diploptera silpha Saussure)
References
edit- ^ a b Cockroach Species File: genus Diploptera Saussure, 1864 (retrieved 26 October 2023)
- ^ a b Li, X.; Wang, Z. (2015-09-14). "A taxonomic study of the beetle cockroaches (Diploptera Saussure) from China, with notes on the genus and species worldwide (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Diplopterinae)". Zootaxa. 4018 (1): 35–56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4018.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 26624027.
- ^ Marchal, Elisabeth; Hult, Ekaterina F.; Huang, Juan; Stay, Barbara; Tobe, Stephen S. (2013). "Diploptera punctata as a model for studying the endocrinology of arthropod reproduction and development". General and Comparative Endocrinology. 188: 85–93. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.04.018. PMID 23644152.
- ^ Li, X.-R.; Li, M.; Wang, Z.-Q. (2017-09-18). "Preliminary molecular phylogeny of beetle cockroaches ( Diploptera ) and notes on male and female genitalia (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Diplopterinae)". Zootaxa. 4320 (3). ISSN 1175-5334.