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• Dasyposoma castanea Saussure, H. de 1869. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. IIme fascicule Blattides et Phasmides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 20: 227-326 [285] [without access to further material it is not possible to place this name; 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. Gravenhage : Junk . (327) listed name as nom. nud.; 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 (50) lists name as a questionable Panesthiinae; 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 . [104] (Dr P. Grandcolas MNHNP, pers. comm.), saw the specimen and confirmed the current subfamily placement].

  Type data:

   Holotype adult, locality unknown.

General References

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 (Geoscapheinae recovered as polyphyletic within a paraphyletic Panesthiinae, therefore authors suggested Geoscapheinae be sunk within the Panesthiinae based on molecular data)

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