Panesthia

Panesthia is a large genus of burrowing giant cockroach in the subfamily Panesthiinae.[1][2] It is subsocial and its species are mainly found in Southeast Asia, coastal East Asia, Australasia, and Indo-Malaysia.[2][3]

Panesthia
Panesthia augustipennis cognata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Hexapoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Blattodea
Family:
Blaberidae
Subfamily:
Panesthiinae
Genus:
Panesthia

Serville, 1831
Synonyms
  • Dicellonotus Butler, 1882
  • Proterodia Costa, 1866

Many species feed on wood, the best-studied being Panesthia angustipennis. Until recently it was believed that Panesthia and other members of Panesthiinae do not rely on the hindgut for wood digestion,[4] but it is now believed that a "fiber-associated microbiome" might be contributing to up to 1/5th of the total xylanase and cellulase activities in the gut of P. angustipennis.[5]

Species list
  • Panesthia ancaudellioides Roth & L. M. 1977
  • Panesthia angustipennis (Illiger 1801)
  • Panesthia antennatav Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
  • Panesthia asahinai Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia australis Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865
  • Panesthia bilobata Bei-Bienko 1965
  • Panesthia birmanica Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
  • Panesthia bougainvillensis Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia celebica Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
  • Panesthia concinna Feng, P. & Woo 1990
  • Panesthia cribrata Saussure 1864
  • Panesthia cyclopensis Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia flavipennis Wood-Mason 1876
  • Panesthia gurneyi Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia heurni Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia karimuiensis Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia larvata Bei-Bienko 1969
  • Panesthia lata Walker & F. 1868
  • Panesthia lobipennis Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
  • Panesthia lucanoides (Butler 1882)
  • Panesthia luteoalata Hanitsch 1937
  • Panesthia matthewsi Roth & L. M. 1977
  • Panesthia mearnsi Caudell 1924
  • Panesthia missimensis Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia modiglianii Hanitsch 1932
  • Panesthia monstruosa Wood-Mason 1876
  • Panesthia morosa Kirby & W. F. 1903
  • Panesthia morsus (Butler 1882)
  • Panesthia necrophoroides Walker & F. 1868
  • Panesthia obscura (Saussure 1873)
  • Panesthia obtusa Shaw 1918
  • Panesthia ornata Saussure 1873
  • Panesthia papuensis Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia paramonstruosa Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia parva Shaw 1918
  • Panesthia plagiata Walker & F. 1859
  • Panesthia puncticollis Stål 1877
  • Panesthia pygmaea Princis 1951
  • Panesthia quadriporosa Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia quinquedentata Kirby & W. F. 1903
  • Panesthia regalis Walker & F. 1868
  • Panesthia rufipennis Princis 1957
  • Panesthia saussurei Stål 1877
  • Panesthia sedlaceki Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia serrata Saussure 1895
  • Panesthia shelfordi Hanitsch 1923
  • Panesthia sinuata Saussure 1895
  • Panesthia sloanei Shaw 1918
  • Panesthia stellata Saussure 1895
  • Panesthia strelkovi Bei-Bienko 1969
  • Panesthia tepperi Kirby & W. F. 1903
  • Panesthia toxopeusi Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia transversa Burmeister 1838
  • Panesthia triangulifera Hanitsch 1927
  • Panesthia tryoni Shaw 1918
  • Panesthia urbani Roth & L. M. 1979
  • Panesthia wallacei Wood-Mason 1876

References
  1. Zicha, Ondrej. "BioLib: Biological library". www.biolib.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  2. "Definition of PANESTHIA". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  3. "Panesthia Serville, 1831". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  4. Scrivener, A. M.; Slaytor, M.; Rose, H. A. (1989-01-01). "Symbiont-independent digestion of cellulose and starch in Panesthia cribrata Saussure, an Australian wood-eating cockroach". Journal of Insect Physiology. 35 (12): 935–941. doi:10.1016/0022-1910(89)90016-4. ISSN 0022-1910.
  5. Schwarz, Melbert; Tokuda, Gaku; Osaki, Haruka; Mikaelyan, Aram (September 2023). "Reevaluating Symbiotic Digestion in Cockroaches: Unveiling the Hindgut's Contribution to Digestion in Wood-Feeding Panesthiinae (Blaberidae)". Insects. 14 (9): 768. doi:10.3390/insects14090768. ISSN 2075-4450.
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