Cockroach
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Cockroaches are insects belonging to the order Blattodea. About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are well-known pests.
A Turkestan cockroach (Periplaneta lateralis) next to an approximately 108-million-year-old fossil cockroach from the Cretaceous Period
A 40- to 50-million-year-old cockroach in Baltic amber (Eocene)
Domino cockroach Therea petiveriana, normally found in India
Head of Periplaneta americana
Dictyoptera
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Dictyoptera is an insect superorder that includes two extant orders of polyneopterous insects: the order Blattodea and the order Mantodea. All modern Dictyoptera have short ovipositors and typically l
Termite queen with soldiers
Deimatic behaviour of the mantis Oxyopsis sp.