UK scientists have said that they have produced the strongest evidence to date that termites are actually cockroaches.
They said their research shows that termites no long merited belonging to a different order (Isoptera), but should be treated as a family of cockroaches.
The findings appear in the Royal Society's Biology Letters journal.
One of the paper's co-authors, Paul Eggleton, explained why their research had unmasked termites' "true identity".
"In the past, people thought that because termites were so different in appearance, they belonged to a different order," he said.
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