Cryptocercus 1905759 204738966 2008-04-10T17:54:46Z Dyanega 1357080 correcting ordinal name {{Taxobox | name = Brown-hooded cockroaches | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | classis = [[Insect]]a | ordo = [[Blattaria]] | familia = '''Cryptocercidae''' | genus = '''''Cryptocercus''''' | genus_authority = Scudder, 1862 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''[[Cryptocercus clevelandi]]''<br/> ''[[Cryptocercus darwini]]''<br/> ''[[Cryptocercus garciai]]''<br/> ''[[Cryptocercus primarius]]''<br/> ''[[Cryptocercus punctulatus]]''<br/> ''[[Cryptocercus relictus]]''<br/> ''[[Cryptocercus wrighti]]'' }} '''''Cryptocercus''''' is a genus of [[cockroach]]es in the family Cryptocercidae, of which this genus is the only member. Species are known as '''wood roaches''' or '''brown-hooded cockroaches'''. Since 1996, [[DNA]] studies have led to the [[USA|North American]] species ''[[Cryptocercus punctulatus|C. punctulatus]]'' being divided into 5 separate species, bringing the world-wide species count to seven. ''Cryptocercus'' is especially notable for sharing numerous characteristics with [[termites]], and phylogenetic studies have shown that this genus is more closely related to termites than it is to other cockroaches. ==References== *Nalepa, C.A., Byers, G.W., Bandi, C. and Sironi, M. 1997. "Description of ''Cryptocercus clevelandi'' from the Northwestern United States, molecular analysis of bacterial symbionts in its fat body and notes on biology, distribution and biogeography." ''Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer.'' '''90''':416-424. *Burnside, C.A., P.T. Smith and S. Kambhampati, 1999. "Three New Species of the Wood Roach, ''Cryptocercus'' (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae), From the Eastern United States." ''The World Wide Web Journal of Biology'' '''4''':1 [http://www.epress.com/w3jbio/vol4/burnside/index.html] {{insect-stub}} [[Category:Cockroaches]]