Members of the morphologically and ecologically diverse Blattellidae provide a dilemma: their systematic assignment, whether similar or different, is uncertain. We pay special attention to several taxa: Episymploce Bey-Bienko, 1950 Symploce Hebard, 1916, which were strongly disputed because extremely generic diagnosis in past century, one brachypterous species Blattella Caudell, 1903, can be ea...

Henri de Saussure described 20 species currently placed in the family Anaplectidae, some of them collaboration with Leo Zehntner. These are listed alphabetically an account type specimens Muséum d'histoire naturelle Genève. The location other museums is given where known. current binominal combination for each provided.