Panesthia Explained
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.[3]
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 antennata 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
Notes and References
- Web site: Zicha . Ondrej . BioLib: Biological library . 2022-10-30 . www.biolib.cz . cs.
- Web site: Definition of PANESTHIA . 2022-10-30 . www.merriam-webster.com . en.
- Web site: Panesthia Serville, 1831 . 2022-10-30 . www.gbif.org . en.
- 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 . 10.1016/0022-1910(89)90016-4 . 0022-1910.
- 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 . en . 14 . 9 . 768 . 10.3390/insects14090768 . 37754736 . 10531843 . 2075-4450 . free .
