In terrifying display of phylogenetic prowess published in this month's Royal Society's Biology Letters, Inward et al. blow the collective minds of entomologists around the world with some seriously ill shit: termites, formerly order Isoptera, actually belong as a family within order Blattodae, THE COCKROACHES. The proposed name for this new family is Termitidae. Although I haven't exactly been on top of recent developments in Isopteran taxonomy, it is rare to have taxonomic reorganization at the level of order. That said, in the paper (aptly titled "The Death of an Order") the authors present an extremely comprehensive molecular analysis of this particular phylogeny. Fancy that.

Here's a quick refresher on the basic levels of Linnaen taxonomic classification, from highest to lowest level:

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.