Species Panesthia australis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865

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• Panesthia australis Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [396].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW ♂ ♀ adults (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 (27) could not locate the type specimens and only saw specimens from Port Denison; Roach, A.M.E. 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 . [107] Rentz, D.C.F. saw one of the Port Denison specimens with an invalid (as the designation was never published) lectotype label written by Roth in 1973, this label should be removed, and also located a ♀ specimen labelled 'Moreton Bay' in NHMW which may be part of the type series), Sydney (as Sidney), NSW and Moreton Bay, QLD.
• Panesthia perfecta 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 [414] [Kirby erected perfecta as he thought the specimen 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 (323) described as an additional Panesthia australis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865 was misidentified, for this reason type specimen(s) should come from Saussure].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ adult, NSW, Australia.

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. [318]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, gregarious, litter, rotting wood.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female may have full length wings, abbreviated wings or broken wing stubs.

General References

Matsumoto, T. 1988. Colony composition of the wood-feeding cockroach, Panesthia australis Brunner (Blattaria, Blaberidae, Panesthiinae) in Australia. Zoological Science (Tokyo) 5: 1145-1148

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 [25] (redescription)

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 [72] (new records)

Roth, L.M. 1999. New cockroach species, redescriptions, and records, mostly from Australia, and a description of Metanocticola gen. nov., sp. nov., from Christmas Island (Blattaria). Records of the Western Australian Museum 19: 327-364 [354] (new records)

Rugg, D. & Rose, H.A. 1984. Intraspecies association in Panesthia cribata (Sauss.) (Blattodea: Blaberidae). General and Applied Entomology 16: 33-35 [35] (intraspecific association)

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 [323] (description from which Kirby named Panesthia perfecta)

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