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Some 4000 species of cockroaches have been described from most parts of the world, although the suborder Blattaria (which they form) is primarily tropical and subtropical. Most species live in forests where some are semi-aquatic, others burrow, bore into wood, or live in caves (cavernicolous); a few even live commensally with other insects, such as ants (Roth and Willis, 1957). They are predominantly nocturnal and are either omnivorous or vegetarian.
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Burgess, N.R.H. (1993). Cockroaches (Blattaria). In: Lane, R.P., Crosskey, R.W. (eds) Medical Insects and Arachnids. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1554-4_13
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