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Cryptocercus is a genus of Dictyoptera (cockroaches and allies) and the sole member of its own family Cryptocercidae.cite-ref-1[1] 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.cite-ref-2[2]

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.cite-ref-3[3] These two lineages probably shared a common ancestor in the early Cretaceous.cite-ref-4[4]

• Species

• References

• Further reading

Found in North America and (especially temperate) Asia, there are 12 known species:

• Cryptocercus clevelandi Byers, 1997

• Cryptocercus darwini Burnside, Smith, Kambhampati, 1999

• Cryptocercus garciai Burnside, Smith, Kambhampati, 1999

• Cryptocercus hirtus Grandcolas, Bellés, 2005

• Cryptocercus kyebangensis Grandcolas, 2001

• Cryptocercus matilei Grandcolas, 2000

• Cryptocercus meridianus Grandcolas, Legendre, 2005

• Cryptocercus parvus Grandcolas, Park, 2005

• Cryptocercus primarius Bey-Bienko, 1938

• Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder, 1862

• Cryptocercus relictus Bey-Bienko, 1935

• Cryptocercus wrighti Burnside, Smith, Kambhampati, 1999

cite-note-11. ↑ Beccaloni, G. & P. Eggleton. (2013). Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q.(Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa 3703(1) 46-48.

cite-note-22. ↑ Daegan Inward, George Beccaloni, and Paul Eggleton (2007) Death of an order: a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study confirms that termites are eusocial cockroaches

cite-note-33. ↑ Djernæs, M., et al. 2012. Phylogeny of cockroaches (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattodea), with placement of aberrant taxa and exploration of out-group sampling. Systematic Entomology 37(1): 65–83. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00598.x.

cite-note-44. ↑ citerefli2022Li, Xin-Ran (2022). "Phylogeny and age of cockroaches: a reanalysis of mitogenomes with selective fossil calibrations". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 69 (1): 1–18. doi:10.3897/dez.69.68373. ISSN 1860-1324.

• Nalepa, C.A., Byers, G.W., Bandi, C. and Sironi, M. 1997. "Description of Cryptocercus clevelandi (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) from the Northwestern United States, molecular analysis of bacterial symbionts in its fat body, and notes on biology, distribution and biogeography." Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 90:416-424.

• Burnside, C.A., P.T. Smith and S. Kambhampati, 1999. "Three New Species of the Wood Roach, Cryptocercus (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae), from the Eastern United States." The World Wide Web Journal of Biology 4:1