Corydiinae

Corydiinae
Temporal range:
Polyphaga pellucida in the Saint Petersburg Zoological Museum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Corydiidae
Subfamily: Corydiinae
Saussure & Zehntner, 1893
Synonyms

Polyphaginae Saussure, 1864

Corydiinae is a subfamily of the order Blattodea (cockroaches). Many are known as sand cockroaches. The subfamily, comprising about 20 genera, contains half the genera in Corydiidae. One prominent species is the desert cockroach, Arenivaga investigata.

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