Diploptera
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'''