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Panesthia
Sign in to savePanesthia 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.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 169
- With media
- 18
- Family
- Blaberidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NMV, USNM, QVMAG, AM
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Australia, Bolivia, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Blaberidae
- Image
- Panesthia angustipennis spadica oogokiburi DSCN9449.JPG
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- Commons category
- Panesthia
- taxon name
- Panesthia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Panesthia
- taxon author citation
- Serville, 1831
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Species list
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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.
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