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Mantodea e Blattodea solo solitamente messi insieme dagli entomologi in un gruppo più alto chiamato Dictyoptera (o Ootecari).
==Cockroaches in the movies==
*''[[Joe's Apartment]]'' — The bugs are cheerful, swinging party-goers who help the titular human hero.
*''[[Damnation Alley (film)|Damnation Alley]]'' — A post-apocalyptic Las Vegas is infected with a flesh-eating mutant variety.
*''[[Team America: World Police]]'' — After his apparent death, a coachroach crawls out of [[Kim Jong-il]]'s mouth and flies away in a rocket ship, in [[parody]] of ''Men in Black''.
*''[[Quest for Glory IV: Shadow of Darkness]]'' — Form the Thieve's Guild leader takes after touching a cursed statue in the monestary.
In the classic William Burroughs epic, ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' (and its [[Naked Lunch (film)|film adaptation]]), one of the main themes is an abundance of cockroaches, and some of the characters resemble cockroaches.
In the ''[[The X-Files|X-Files]]'' episode "[[List of The X-Files episodes#Season 3: 1995-1996|War of The Coprophages]]", cockroaches are seen to group together to murder people. The character Dr. Berenbaum (based on the University of Illinois entomologist) suggests that it is actually swarms of flying cockroaches that are responsible for most [[Unidentified flying object|UFO]] sightings (they generate an electro-static field which can be illuminated dependent on atmospheric conditions). In one of the scenes, a cockroach that escaped can be seen crawling over the camera, making it appear that the viewer's television has become infested. Though the shot was not planned, the producers decided to leave it in the episode.
The cult computer game ''[[Bad Mojo]]'' deals with a person turned into a cockroach.
[[archy and mehitabel|Archy]] is a cockroach in a series of columns by [[Don Marquis]].
[[Megalon]] is a 50 meter tall cockroach.
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