Diploptera
Sign in to saveDiploptera, 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. They are viviparous cockroaches and are therefore used for insect endocrinological studies.
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It is catalogued under topics including Blattodea genera, Cockroaches and Insects of Asia.
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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. They are viviparous cockroaches and are therefore used for insect endocrinological studies.
==Species== The Cockroach Species File lists: Diploptera bicolor Diploptera elliptica Diploptera erythrocephala Diploptera maculata Diploptera minor Diploptera naevus Diploptera nigrescens D. n. nigrescens D. n. guani Diploptera parva Diploptera punctata - type species (as Diploptera silpha )
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