Atypical ‘long-tailed’ cockroaches arose during Cretaceous in response to angiosperm terrestrial revolution [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Typical cockroaches are flat, broad, with large pronotum and wings covering the body. This conserved morphotype dates back to the Carboniferous, during which the ancestral cockroaches, or roachoids, originated.
Xin-Ran Li, Di-Ying Huang
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, 2016 Isoptera (termites) and Blattaria (cockroaches) collectively form Order Blattodea, which together with Mantids (Order Mantodea) constitute the Superorder Dictyoptera.
GHESINI, SILVIA +3 more
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, 2008 DICTYOPTERA BLATTARIA Key reference: Gutiérrez and Perez-Gelabert (2000). BLATTOIDEA BLATTIDAE Blattinae Blatta Linnaeus, 1758 Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758.
Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E.
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Fight, retreat, repeat: The male–male agonistic behavior in the wood‐feeding cockroach, Panesthia angustipennis spadica (Dictyoptera: Blattodea: Blaberidae) [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 10, October 2024.It is the report of the wild male–male agonistic behavior in Panesthia angustipennis. Its fighting has remarkable characteristics, both aggressiveness and avoidance. Abstract Competition is one of the most critical factors affecting animal behaviors. Aggressive interactions are central to acquiring resources or mating partners.
Haruka Osaki +4 more
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Checklist of the Neotropical mantids (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Mantodea)
Biota Colombiana, 2007 -
Antonio Arnovis Agudelo Rondón +2 more
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Patterns of morphological evolution in the raptorial appendages of praying mantises [PDF]
Insect Science, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 1061-1079, June 2025.This study traces changes in the morphology of the forelegs across fossil and extant dictyopterans to understand their evolution from cursorial limbs to the raptorial morphologies of mantodeans. Two new mantodean specimens preserved in amber are described herein.
Alejandro Izquierdo‐López +5 more
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Comparative Morphology of the Extrinsic and Intrinsic Leg Musculature in Dictyoptera (Insecta: Blattodea, Mantodea) [PDF]
Journal of Morphology, Volume 285, Issue 12, December 2024.We analyzed the morphology of all pairs of legs in Mantodea and its closest sister‐group—the Blattodea—using high‐resolution microcomputed tomography and dissection. Thereby, we updated the blattodean morphology and revealed a shared musculature set‐up in all pairs of legs among later‐branching mantodeans, and several differences in comparison to ...
Fabian Bäumler +2 more
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Structure and Antibacterial Activity of Chitosan from the American Cockroach, the German Cockroach and the Mealworm Beetle [PDF]
Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases, 2023 Background: Owing to chitosan properties such as biocompatibility and antimicrobial activities, and several applications in biomedical field, some physicochemical and anti-bacterial properties, and the level of chitosan from three species of American ...
Ebrahim Cheraghi +4 more
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FIGURES 49–50 in Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera)
Zootaxa, 2020 FIGURES 49–50. Hagiomantis superba (Gerstaecker, 1889). 49. Female in dorsal view. 50. Same, ventral view. Scale bar: 10 mm.Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Ehrmann, Reinhard, Stiewe, Martin B.D., Mörtter, Rolf & Falkenberg, Michael, 2020 ...
Falkenberg, Michael +4 more
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Unexpected Evolutionary Divergence of Tachykinin‐Positive Neurons Innervating the Central Complex in Hexapods [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 534, Issue 3, March 2026.The central complex is a group of midline‐spanning neuropils in the brain of insects with a key role in goal‐directed orientation and navigation. Immunolabeling in 25 species, ranging from bristletails to flies, shows that neurons containing peptides of the tachykinin family of neuropeptides are present in most species studied.
Uwe Homberg +8 more
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