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（英語：Cryptocercus garciai）
科學分類
界：	動物界 Animalia
門：	節肢動物門 Arthropoda
綱：	昆蟲綱 Insecta
目：	蜚蠊目 Blattodea
科：	隱尾蠊科 Cryptocercidae
屬：	隱尾蠊屬 Cryptocercus Scudder（英語：Samuel Hubbard Scudder）, 1862
種
Cryptocercus clevelandi Cryptocercus darwini Cryptocercus garciai（英語：Cryptocercus garciai） Cryptocercus kyebangensis Cryptocercus matilei Cryptocercus primarius Cryptocercus punctulatus Cryptocercus relictus Cryptocercus wrighti Cryptocercus hirtus Cryptocercus meridianus Cryptocercus parvus
異名
Cryptocerus Cryptogercus Scudder, 1862

隱尾蠊屬能在北美洲和亞洲被發現，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。

下屬物種

本屬包括以下物種：

• Cryptocercus arcuatus
• Cryptocercus banshanmenensis
• Cryptocercus changbaiensis
• 城口隱尾蠊 Cryptocercus chengkouensis
• Cryptocercus clevelandi Byers, 1997
• Cryptocercus convexus
• Cryptocercus darwini Burnside, Smith & Kambhampati, 1999
• Cryptocercus garciai Burnside, Smith & Kambhampati, 1999
• Cryptocercus gexigouensis Wang & Che, 2019
• Cryptocercus habaensis
• Cryptocercus hirtus Grandcolas & Bellés, 2005
• Cryptocercus hongshiensis Wang & Che, 2019
• Cryptocercus kagongensis Wang & Che, 2019
• Cryptocercus kyebangensis Grandcolas, 2001
• 老君隱尾蠊 Cryptocercus laojunensis
• 灤川隱尾蠊 Cryptocercus luanchuanensis
• Cryptocercus maluogouensis Wang & Che, 2019
• Cryptocercus matilei Grandcolas, 2000
• Cryptocercus meridianus Grandcolas & Legendre, 2005
• 內鄉隱尾蠊 Cryptocercus neixiangensis
• Cryptocercus ningshanensis
• Cryptocercus parvus Grandcolas & Park, 2005
• Cryptocercus pingwuensis
• 首領隱尾蠊 Cryptocercus primarius Bey-Bienko, 1938
• Cryptocercus pudacuoensis
• 蛀木蜚蠊 Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder, 1862
• 遺存隱尾蠊 Cryptocercus relictus Bey-Bienko, 1935
• Cryptocercus sanchaensis Wang & Che, 2019
• 神農架隱尾蠊 Cryptocercus shennongjiaensis
• Cryptocercus tazigouensis Wang & Che, 2019
• Cryptocercus tianbaensis
• Cryptocercus weixiensis
• Cryptocercus wolongensis
• Cryptocercus wrighti Burnside, Smith & Kambhampati, 1999
• 無錫隱尾蠊 Cryptocercus wuxiensis
• Cryptocercus zagunaoensis

參考文獻

1. Beccaloni, G. & P. Eggleton. (2013). Order Blattodea. （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館） 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 （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）
3. Grandcolas, P., Legendre, F., Park, Y. C., Belles, X., Murienne, J., & Pellens, R. The genus Cryptocercus in East Asia: distribution and new species (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Polyphagidae). (PDF). Zoostema-Paris. 2005, 4 (27): 725 [2017-09-16]. （原始內容存檔 (PDF)於2021-03-01）.
4. Djernæs, M., et al. 2012. Phylogeny of cockroaches (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattodea), with placement of aberrant taxa and exploration of out-group sampling. （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館） Systematic Entomology 37(1): 65–83. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00598.x.

延伸閱讀

• Nalepa, C.A., Byers, G.W., Bandi, C. and Sironi, M. 1997. "Description of Cryptocercus clevelandi (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) from the Northwestern United States, molecular analysis of bacterial symbionts in its fat body, and notes on biology, distribution and biogeography （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）." Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 90:416-424.
• Burnside, C.A., P.T. Smith and S. Kambhampati, 1999. "Three New Species of the Wood Roach, Cryptocercus (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae), from the Eastern United States." The World Wide Web Journal of Biology 4:1