Alternative spellings: Protoblattodea, Protoblattoidea
Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640
Parent taxon: Dictyoptera according to C. J. Durden 1969
Sister taxa: Baissomantidae, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Palaeoblattina, Protoblattinopsis, Pseudojantaropterix, Qilianiblatta, Strephocladidae, Umenocoleoidea
Subtaxa: Adiphlebidae, Aetophlebidae, Agogoblattina, Anthracothremmidae, Asiopompidae, Asyncritidae, Cheliphlebidae, Eoblattidae, Eucaenidae, Eucaenoidea, Gerapompidae, Megalometer, Oryctoblattinidae, Paucineuridae, Polyernus, Polyetes, Protoblattoidea minor, Protoblattoidea sellardsi, Protophasmidae, Pseudetoblattina, Ptenodera, Xenogryllacris
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