Cryptocercus
Also known as wood roaches, brown-hooded cockroaches
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.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderBlattodea
- FamilyCryptocercidae
隱尾蠊屬（Cryptocercus）是網翅總目下的一屬及隱尾蠊科下的唯一成員。此屬為亞社會性，若蟲需要親代大量的照顧。隱尾蠊屬的腸胃中生有和食木性白蟻相同的木質消化共生菌，此點被視為兩者有著極為接近關係的證據，也就是說白蟻基本上是從社會性蟑螂演化而來。 隱尾蠊屬能在北美洲和亞洲被發現，目前共有12個已知物種。 隱尾蠊屬擁有許多和白蟻相同的特徵。種系發生學研究顯示本屬與白蟻的關係比起其他的蜚蠊還要更加密切，隱尾蠊屬為白蟻領科的姊妹群。
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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.
Cryptocercus is especially notable for sharing numerous characteristics with termites, and phylogenetic studies have shown this genus is more closely related to termites than it is to other cockroaches. These two lineages probably shared a common ancestor in the early Cretaceous.