Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Arthropoda - (Class) Insecta - (Order) Blattodea - (Family) Blattidae

Original position

Coleoptera (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Blattidae (Family) Latreille, 1810
Blattinae (Subfamily) Latreille, 1810
Hemiptera (Order) Linnaeus, 1758		Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1767: 687. [assumed]

Original entries

Blatta aegyptiaca Linnaeus, 1758
Blatta africana Linnaeus, 1758
Blatta americana Linnaeus, 1758
Blatta daurica E. Laxmann, 1769
Blatta gigantea Linnaeus, 1758
Blatta lapponica Linnaeus, 1758
Blatta nivea Linnaeus, 1758
Blatta oblongata Linnaeus, 1758
Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758
Blatta surinamensis Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Blattinae (Subfamily) Latreille, 1810

Ref: C.N. Smithers, 1998: 4.

Alternative positions

Blattidae (Family) Latreille, 1810	Ref: 1998: 8 Jan 2009.
Coleoptera (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 424. [new taxon]
Hemiptera (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1767: 687. [new position]

Historical positions

Blattidae (Family) Latreille, 1810	Ref: 1998
Arthropoda (Phylum) Siebold, 1848	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 224. [rough position]
Blattinae (Subfamily) Latreille, 1810	Ref: J.O. Corliss, 1982: 633. [indirect]
Blattidae (Family) Latreille, 1810	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979: 588.
Blattidae (Family) Latreille, 1810	Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975
Tocoptera (Order)	Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 446. [rough position]
Hemiptera (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1767: 538, 687. [new position]
Coleoptera (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 342, 424.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[9s]
1758	C. Linnaeus	[9s]