Genus Panesthia Serville, 1831

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• Panesthia Serville, J.G.A. 1831. Revue méthodologique des insectes de l'ordre des Orthoptères. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 22: 28-65, 134-167, 262-292 [38].

  Type species:

   Blatta angustipennis Illiger, 1801 by monotypy.
• Proterodia Costa, A. 1866. Di una singolare cocciniglia della fauna Italiana, e di alcuni ortotteri Blattidei. Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche. Napoli 3(7): 1-12 [5].

  Type species:

   Proterodia punctatissima A. Costa, 1866 by monotypy.
• Dicellonotus Butler, A.G. 1882. On some new genera and species of Blattariae in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9(5): 387 [387].

  Type species:

   Dicellonotus lucanoides Butler, 1882 by subsequent designation, see Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 501 pp. [201].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Princis, K. 1965. Pars 7: Blattariae: Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam. Oxyhaloidae, Panesthiidae, Cryptocercidae, Chorisoneuridae, Oulopterygidae, Diplopteridae, Anaplectidae, Archiblattidae, Nothoblattidae. pp. 284-400 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : Dr. W. Junk. [309] (Proterodia)
• Roth, L.M. 1977. A taxonomic revision of the Panesthiinae of the world. I. The Panesthiinae of Australia (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 48: 1-112 [12] (Dicellonotus)

 

Introduction

Beasley-Hall et al. (2021) produced a robust phylogenetic hypothesis for the family based on mitochondrial genomes, which suggested that Panesthia angustipennis and Panesthia cribrata are each likely to represent species complexes.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malayan and Austro-Malayan subregions.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Mulga Lands (ML) ; Qld: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Adams, M.W.D., Walker, J.A., Rose, H.A., Jones, B.R., Zwick, A., Yang, H., Nicholls, J., Hartley, D., Bent, S., Carlile, N., Hutton, I., Ho, S.Y.W. & Lo N. 2024. Plio-Pleistocene decline of mesic forest underpins diversification in a clade of Australian Panesthia cockroaches. Systematic Entomology 49: 001-016

Asahina, S. 1988. Taxonomic notes on Japanese Blattaria. XVII. The species of the genus Panesthia. Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology 39: 53-62

Beasley-Hall, P.G., Rose, H.A., Walker, J., Kinjo, Y., Bourguignon, T., & Lo, N. 2021. Digging deep: a revised phylogeny of Australian burrowing cockroaches (Blaberidae: Panesthiinae, Geoscapheinae) confirms extensive nonmonophyly and provides insights into biogeography and evolution of burrowing. Systematic Entomology 1-17

Feng, P.Z. & Woo, F.C. 1990. A study on the genus Panesthia from China (Blattaria: Panesthiidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica 33: 213-217

Kidder, G.W. 1937. The intestinal protozoa of the wood-feeding roach Panesthia. Parasitology 29: 164-205

Roth, L.M. 1977. A taxonomic revision of the Panesthiinae of the world. I. The Panesthiinae of Australia (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 48: 1-112 (revision of Australian species and key)

Roth, L.M. 1979. A taxonomic revision of the Panesthiinae of the world. III. The genera Panesthia Serville and Miopanesthia Serville (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 74: 1-276 (revision of world species and key)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Dec-2023	BLABERIDAE Saussure, 1864	28-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
18-Aug-2021		27-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
03-Jan-2012		03-Jan-2012	MOVED
04-Jan-2012		04-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		05-Nov-2010	MODIFIED