Species list, Checklist of Order Blattodea (Cockroach) for Colombo (Western Province, Sri Lanka)

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 Order Blattodea Latreille, 1810 (Cockroach)
and region Colombo (Western Province, Sri Lanka)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	89 244 280	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	89 244 280	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	81 220 250	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Polyneoptera Martynov, 1923	7 7 8	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Blattodea Latreille, 1810 Cockroach, Cockroaches, Cockroaches and Termites, Termites	3 3 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Colombo (Sri Lanka)
3 Families width 4 Species

Blattidae Stephens, 1829	American cockroaches	2	Species	Taxom
Blaberidae Saussure, 1864	Blaberids	1	Species	Taxom
Termitidae Latreille, 1802	Higher termites	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Colombo (Sri Lanka)
3 Genera with 4 Species

Periplaneta Burmeister, 1868	Cockroaches	2	Species	Taxom
Pycnoscelus Scudder, 1775		1	Species	Taxom
Trinervitermes Holmgren, 1859		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Colombo (Sri Lanka)
4 Species

Periplaneta americana Linnaeus, 1758	American
Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister, 1868	Brown Cockroach
Pycnoscelus indicus Fabricius, 1775	Burrowing cockroach
Trinervitermes rabidus Hagen, 1859

Subnodes of Blattodea with occurrences in Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Superfamily	Blaberoidea Saussure, 1864	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Blattoidea Latreille, 1810	2 2 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

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