See text Cryptocercus is a genus of Dictyoptera (cockroaches and allies) and the sole member of its own family Cryptocercidae.

These roaches are subsocial, their young requiring considerable parental interaction.

They also share wood-digesting gut bacteria types with wood-eating termites, and are therefore seen as evidence of a close genetic relationship, that termites are essentially evolved from social cockroaches.

[3] These two lineages probably shared a common ancestor in the early Cretaceous.

[4] Found in North America and (especially temperate) Asia, there are 12 known species: This cockroach article is a stub.