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Blattodea
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Cockroaches and, since molecular evidence placed them within the same order, termites: insects with a flattened body and, in cockroaches, a notably ancient body plan largely unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. Termites within the order build some of the most elaborate social-insect colonies and structures known.
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