Cryptocercus Scudder, 1862: 419

Wang, Zong-Qing, Li, Yang, Che, Yan-Li & Wang, Jin-Jun, 2015, The wood-feeding genus Cryptocercus (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae), with description of two new species based on female genitalia, Florida Entomologist 98 (1), pp. 260-260 : 260

Cryptocercus Scudder, 1862: 419 ; Bey-Bienko 1938: 237; Nalepa et al. 1997: 416; Burnside et al. 1999: 361; Grandcolas, 2000: 223; Grandcolas et al. 2001: 61; Aldrich et al. 2004: 443; Grandcolas et al. 2005: 725.

Body medium, glossy brown to dark brown with dorsal surface finely punctured.Pronotum coarse with peculiar shape, disc depressed with protuberances, also with a protruding fore margin. Both male and

Institute of Entomology , College of Plant Protection , Southwest University , Beibei, Chongqing 400716, China female wingless. All legs powerful and armed with stout, articulated spines; front femur Type D 3, D 4 or D 5, tarsus with pulvilli, tarsal claws symmetrical and unspecialized. Abdomen of female slightly fuller than the male. Tergite VII extending backwards and covering the remaining segments. Styli invisible (generally sheltered by tergite VII), female and male are difficult to distinguish. Genital segments of Cryptocercidae differ from other cockroaches: tergite VII expands backwards com- pletely concealing tergites VIII, IX and X .