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Blaberidae

Giant cockroaches
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A male Madagascar hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Blaberidae
Genera

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Giant cockroaches, or blaberids (family Blaberidae) are the second-largest cockroach family.

(see Taxonomy note)

Among the genera of uncertain subfamily, Eustegasta and Isoniscus have been removed from subfamily Perisphaeriinae. is sometimes assigned to a separate subfamily, the .



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