Corydiidae Explained

Corydiidae, previously known as Polyphagidae,^[1] is a family of the order Blattodea (cockroaches). Many are known as sand cockroaches. The family is divided into five subfamilies, comprising some 40 genera.^{[2] [3]} One prominent species is the desert cockroach, Arenivaga investigata.

Genera

Corydiinae

Selected genera:

• Anisogamia
• Arenivaga
• Eremoblatta
• Eucorydia
• Hemelytroblatta
• Polyphaga
• Therea

Latindiinae

1. Buboblatta Hebard, 1920
2. Bucolion Rehn, 1932: Bucolion stygius
3. Compsodes Hebard, 1917
4. Gapudipentax Lucañas, 2018
5. Latindia Stål, 1860
6. Melestora Stål, 1860
7. Myrmecoblatta Mann, 1914
8. Paralatindia Saussure, 1868
9. Sinolatindia Qiu, Che & Wang, 2016
10. Stenoblatta Walker, 1868

Tiviinae

1. Simblerastes Rehn & Hebard, 1927
2. Sphecophila Shelford, 1907
3. Tivia Walker, 1869

Euthyrrhaphinae

1. Euthyrrhapha Burmeister, 1838

Holocompsinae

1. Holocompsa Burmeister, 1838
2. †Sajda Vršanský in Vršanský et al., 2021 Algeria, Hauterivian^[4]

Incertae sedis

Extant genera

1. Anacompsa Shelford, 1910
2. Ctenoneura Hanitsch, 1925
3. Homopteroidea Shelford, 1906
4. Ipisoma Bolívar, 1893
5. Ipolatta Karny, 1914
6. Melyroidea Shelford, 1912
7. Oulopteryx Hebard, 1921
8. Pholadoblatta Rehn & Hebard, 1927
9. Zetha Shelford, 1913

Extinct genera

Reference:

• †Afrophaga Algeria, Hauterivian^[4]
• †Bimodala Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian^[5]
• †Bimini Chulym-Yenisei Depression, Russia, Late Jurassic
• †Corydoblatta Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• †Cretaholocompsa la Pedrera de Rubies Formation, Spain, Barremian
• †Fragosublatta Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian^[6]
• †Magniocula Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• †Nodosigalea Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• †Obscuroblatta Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• †Piloscutumus Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• †Pokemon Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• †Spinka Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian^[5]
• †Squamicaputa Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• †Okruhliak Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian

Notes and References

1. Book: Beccaloni . G. W. . Eggleton . P. . 2011 . Order Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882 . Zhang . Z.-Q. . Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness . . 3148 . 199–200 .
2. Web site: synonym Polyphagidae Saussure, 1864: Cockroach Species File.
3. Web site: http://gaga.biodiv.tw/new23/cp03_71.htm . zh:蟑螂圖鑑 . 2014-09-19 . 2014-10-13 . zh .
4. Vršanský . P. . Vršanská . L. . Vasilenko . D. V. . Puškelová . L. . Biroň . A. . An isolated Cretaceous analogue of Madagascar on the Adria–Turkey microcontinent indicated by fossils in Brezina, Algeria . 2021 . Palaeontographica Abteilung A . 321 . 1–6 . 19–35 . 10.1127/pala/2021/0107 . 240038689 .
5. Peter Vršanský . Lucia Šmídová . Hemen Sendi . Peter Barna . Patrick Müller . Sieghard Ellenberger . Hao Wu . Xiaoyin Ren . Xiaojie Lei . Dany Azar . Juraj Šurka . Tao Su . Weiyudong Deng . Xianhui Shen . Jun Lv . Tong Bao . Günter Bechly . 2019 . Parasitic cockroaches indicate complex states of earliest proved ants . Biologia . 74 . 1 . 65–89 . 10.2478/s11756-018-0146-y . 2019Biolg..74...65V . 53279646 .
6. Chen . G. . Xiao . L. . Liang . J. . Shih . C. . Ren . D. . A new cockroach (Blattodea, Corydiidae) with pectinate antennae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber . 2021 . ZooKeys . 1060 . 155–169 . 10.3897/zookeys.1060.67216 . 34690506 . 8486729 . free . 2021ZooK.1060..155C .