Species Panesthia obtusa Shaw, 1918

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• Panesthia obtusa Shaw, A.E. 1918. Australian Blattidae. With descriptions of eleven new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 151-167 [165].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM T2859 ♂ adult, Manly, Brisbane district, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) QM T2859 ♀ adult.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, gregarious, rotting wood, volant.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [282] (QM type information)

Monteith, G.B. 1986. Insects from Kroombit Tops, Queensland, with some results of a site survey of Coleoptera. Queensland Naturalist 27: 27-34 [280] (range extension)

Rentz, D.C.F. & Cameron, H.M. 1983. Catalogue of Australian Cockroaches. CSIRO Australia. Division of Entomology Technical Paper 21: 1-37 [4] (synonymised under Panesthia cribrata Saussure, 1864)

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 [30] (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 [73] (new records)

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