Panesthia

Panesthia
Panesthia augustipennis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Blaberidae
Subfamily: Panesthiinae
Genus: Panesthia
Serville, 1831
Synonyms
  • Dicellonotus Butler, 1882
  • Proterodia Costa, 1866

Panesthia is a large genus of burrowing giant cockroaches in the subfamily Panesthiinae. Species of the genus are subsocial and are mainly found in Southeast Asia, coastal East Asia, Australasia, and Indo-Malaysia.

Many species feed on wood, the best-studied being Panesthia angustipennis. Until recently it was believed that Panesthia and other members of Panesthiinae do not rely on the hindgut for wood digestion, but it is now believed that a "fiber-associated microbiome" might be contributing to up to 1/5th of the total xylanase and cellulase activities in the gut of P. angustipennis.

Species list

References

  1. ↑ Zicha, Ondrej. "BioLib: Biological library". www.biolib.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  2. 1 2 "Definition of PANESTHIA". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  3. ↑ "Panesthia Serville, 1831". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  4. ↑ Scrivener, A. M.; Slaytor, M.; Rose, H. A. (1989-01-01). "Symbiont-independent digestion of cellulose and starch in Panesthia cribrata Saussure, an Australian wood-eating cockroach". Journal of Insect Physiology. 35 (12): 935–941. doi:10.1016/0022-1910(89)90016-4. ISSN 0022-1910.
  5. ↑ Schwarz, Melbert; Tokuda, Gaku; Osaki, Haruka; Mikaelyan, Aram (September 2023). "Reevaluating Symbiotic Digestion in Cockroaches: Unveiling the Hindgut's Contribution to Digestion in Wood-Feeding Panesthiinae (Blaberidae)". Insects. 14 (9): 768. doi:10.3390/insects14090768. ISSN 2075-4450. PMC 10531843. PMID 37754736.