Subspecies Panesthia angustipennis angustipennis (Illiger, 1801)
- Blatta angustipennis Illiger, K. 1801. Neue Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 1: 163-208 [185].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB ♂ adult (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 (24) stated specimens are 'probably lost', Rentz, D.C.F. in Roach, A.M.E. & Rentz, D.C.F. 1998. Blattodea. pp. 21–162, 400 (App. III), 407–426 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 . located specimen), Sumatra. - Blatta aethiopis Stoll, C. 1813. Natuurlijke en naar het leven nauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen der Spoken, Wandelente Bladen, Zabel-springhanen, Krekels, Trekspringhanen en Kakkerlakken, &c.—Représentation ... des Spectres ou Phasmes, des Mantes ... et des Blattes qui se trouvent dans les quatre parties du monde, &c. Amsterdam. [1788–1813 two volumes in one] [3].
Type data:
Holotype NHMW ♂ adult (Rentz, D.C.F. in Roach, A.M.E. & Rentz, D.C.F. 1998. Blattodea. pp. 21–162, 400 (App. III), 407–426 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 . located the specimen listed and labelled 'B. aethiops Stoll. 7562 Java', 'Java Coll. Br. v. W. ex Coll Sommer'), Java. - Panesthia javanica 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 data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Java (as Island of Java). - Panesthia affinis Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 2(2) 1050 pp. [513].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB adult (sex not stated in original description; Rentz, D.C.F. in Roach, A.M.E. & Rentz, D.C.F. 1998. Blattodea. pp. 21–162, 400 (App. III), 407–426 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 . confirmed status and whereabouts), Java. - Panesthia quadrimaculata Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [21].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀ nymph, Java.Subsequent designation references:
Princis, K. 1957. Revision der Walker'schen und Kirby'schen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 22: 87-96, 97-116 [92]. - Panesthia nicobarensis Saussure, H. de 1895. Révision de la tribu Panesthiens et de celle des Épilampriens (Orthoptères de la famille des Blattides). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 3: 299-364 [316].
Type data:
Lectotype GMNH ♂ adult, Great Nicobar Island.
Paralectotype(s) GMNH ♂ nymph.Subsequent designation references:
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 [29]. - Panesthia nigrita Saussure, H. de 1895. Révision de la tribu Panesthiens et de celle des Épilampriens (Orthoptères de la famille des Blattides). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 3: 299-364 [317].
Type data:
Lectotype GMNH ♀ adult, Macassar (Celebes = Sulawesi).Subsequent designation references:
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 [27]. - Panesthia ruficeps Kirby, W.F. 1903. Notes on Blattidae, with descriptions of new genera and species in the collection of the British Museum, South Kensington. No. I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11: 404-415 [412].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀ adult, Christmas Is.
Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀ nymph.Subsequent designation references:
Princis, K. 1957. Revision der Walker'schen und Kirby'schen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 22: 87-96, 97-116 [92]. - Panesthia penrissensis Hanitsch, R. 1933. The Blattidae of Mount Kinabalu, British North Borneo. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 17: 297-337 [335].
Type data:
Lectotype OUM ♂ adult, Mount Penrissen, 4400 ft, Sarawak.
Paralectotype(s) OUM 2♂ 3♀ adults.Subsequent designation references:
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 [28]. - Panesthia galatheae Princis, K. 1951. Neue und wenig Bekannte Blattarien ans dem Zoologischen Museum, Kopenhagen. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 12: 5-72 [13].
Type data:
Holotype ZMUC ♂ nymph (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 (29) states holotype is a nymph not an adult as described), Great Nicobar Is.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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 [24] (Christmas Is. not included as Australian)
Generic Combinations
- Panesthia angustipennis angustipennis (Illiger, 1801). —
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. [310]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Only published QLD record from Prince of Wales Is.
IBRA
Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Burrower, gregarious, litter, rotting wood, volant.
General References
De Haan, W. 1844. Bijdragen tot de kennis der orthoptera. 53 in Temminck, C.J. (ed.). Verhandelingen over de Naturlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Overzeesche Bezittingen. Leiden : S. & J. Luchtmans & C.C. Van Der Hoek Vol. 16(6) 248 pp. 32 pls. [53] (Panesthia aethiopis incorrect subsequent spelling as P. aethiops)
Kirby, W.F. 1903. Notes on Blattidae etc., with descriptions of new genera and species in the collection of the British Museum, South Kensington. No. III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 373-381 [381] (Panesthia nigricans erroneously listed in synonymy, actually unnecessary replacement name for Panesthia nigrita Saussure, 1895)
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 [26, 28] (extralimital distribution, invalid lectotype designation)
History of changes
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| 03-Jan-2012 | 03-Jan-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 04-Jan-2012 | 02-May-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Nov-2010 | MODIFIED |