Diploptera Explained

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] They are viviparous cockroaches and are therefore used for insect endocrinological studies.^[2]

Species

The Cockroach Species File^{[3] [4]} 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)

Notes and References

1. 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 . en . 4018 . 1 . 35–56 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.1.2 . 26624027 . 1175-5334.
2. Marchal. Elisabeth. Hult. Ekaterina F.. Huang. Juan. Stay. Barbara. Tobe. Stephen S.. Diploptera punctata as a model for studying the endocrinology of arthropod reproduction and development. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 188. 85–93. 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.04.018. 23644152. 2013.
3. https://cockroach.speciesfile.org/otus/856968/overview Cockroach Species File: genus Diploptera Saussure, 1864 (retrieved 26 October 2023)
4. 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 . en . 4320 . 3 . 1175-5334.