隱尾蠊屬

隱尾蠊屬Cryptocercus)是網翅總目下的一屬及隱尾蠊科下的唯一成員[1]。此屬為亞社會性,若蟲需要親代大量的照顧。隱尾蠊屬的腸胃中生有和食木性白蟻相同的木質消化共生菌,此點被視為兩者有著極為接近關係的證據,也就是說白蟻基本上是從社會性蟑螂演化而來[2]

隱尾蠊屬
Cryptocercus garciai
科学分类
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 节肢动物门 Arthropoda
纲: 昆虫纲 Insecta
目: 蜚蠊目 Blattodea
科: 隱尾蠊科 Cryptocercidae
属: 隱尾蠊屬 Cryptocercus
Scudder, 1862
  • Cryptocercus clevelandi
  • Cryptocercus darwini
  • Cryptocercus garciai
  • Cryptocercus kyebangensis
  • Cryptocercus matilei
  • Cryptocercus primarius
  • Cryptocercus punctulatus
  • Cryptocercus relictus
  • Cryptocercus wrighti
  • Cryptocercus hirtus
  • Cryptocercus meridianus
  • Cryptocercus parvus

隱尾蠊屬能在北美洲亞洲被發現,目前共有12個已知物種[3]

隱尾蠊屬擁有許多和白蟻相同的特徵。種系發生學研究顯示本屬與白蟻的關係比起其他的蜚蠊還要更加密切[4],隱尾蠊屬為白蟻領科的姊妹群。

參考文獻

  1. Beccaloni, G. & P. Eggleton. (2013). Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q.(Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa 3703(1) 46-48.
  2. Daegan Inward, George Beccaloni, and Paul Eggleton (2007) Death of an order: a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study confirms that termites are eusocial cockroaches
  3. Grandcolas, P., Legendre, F., Park, Y. C., Belles, X., Murienne, J., & Pellens, R. (PDF). Zoostema-Paris. 2005, 4 (27): 725.
  4. Djernæs, M., et al. 2012. Phylogeny of cockroaches (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattodea), with placement of aberrant taxa and exploration of out-group sampling. Systematic Entomology 37(1): 65–83. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00598.x.

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