Species list, Checklist of Family Blattidae (American cockroaches) for Torres Strait Islands (Far North Queensland, Australia)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Family Blattidae Stephens, 1829 (American cockroaches)
and region Torres Strait Islands (Far North Queensland, Australia)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	116 426 623	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	116 426 623	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	111 401 580	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Polyneoptera Martynov, 1923	13 28 37	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Blattodea Latreille, 1810 Cockroach, Cockroaches, Cockroaches and Termites, Termites	6 17 27	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Blattoidea Latreille, 1810	4 15 25	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Blattidae Stephens, 1829 American cockroaches, Household cockroaches	2 4	Genera Species	Taxom

Genera for Torres Strait Islands
2 Genera with 4 Species

Melanozosteria Stål, 1893		3	Species	Taxom
Platyzosteria Brunner, 1903		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Torres Strait Islands
4 Species

Melanozosteria bicolor (Kirby, W. F., 1903)	⇒ Platyzosteria bicolor Kirby, 1903
Melanozosteria melanesiae Shelford, 1909
Melanozosteria triangulata Brunner von ..., 1893
Platyzosteria bicolor Kirby, 1903

Subnodes of Blattidae with occurrences in Torres Strait Islands

Subfamily

Polyzosteriinae
Handlirsch in Schröder, 1925

2
4

Genera
Species

Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Blattidae at artfakta.se
Blattidae at dyntaxa.se
Blattidae at gbif.org
Blattidae at irmng.org
Blattidae at itis.gov