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.^[1][2] They are viviparous cockroaches and are therefore used for insect endocrinological studies.^[3]

Diploptera
Adult Diploptera punctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Family:	Blaberidae
Subfamily:	Diplopterinae
Genus:	Diploptera de Saussure, 1864
Species
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Species

The Cockroach Species File^[1][2][4] lists:

• Diploptera bicolor Hanitsch, 1925
• Diploptera elliptica Li & Wang, 2015
• Diploptera erythrocephala Princis, 1950
• Diploptera maculata Hanitsch, 1925
• Diploptera minor (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
• Diploptera naevus Li & Wang, 2015
• Diploptera nigrescens Shiraki, 1931
  • D. n. nigrescens Shiraki, 1931
  • D. n. guani Li & Wang, 2015
• Diploptera parva Princis, 1953
• Diploptera punctata (Eschscholtz, 1822) - type species (as Diploptera silpha Saussure)