Panesthia birmanica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Wang, Xiudan, Wang, Zongqing & Che, Yanli, 2014, A taxonomic study of the genus Panesthia (Blattodea, Blaberidae, Panesthiinae) from China with descriptions of one new species, one new subspecies and the male of Panesthiaantennata, ZooKeys 466, pp. 53-75 : 60-61

Taxon classification Animalia Blattodea Blaberidae

Panesthia birmanica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 Figs 19-20, 68-73

Panesthia birmanica Brunner, 1893: 54; Roth 1979: 67; Feng and Woo 1990: 213.

Remarks.

This species is distinguished from other species by its small body length, ranging from 22.5 mm to 28 mm; and also by pronotum virtually flattened, anterior margin slightly thickened, entire or weakly indented in male, entire and not thickened in female (Fig. 68); as well as the caudal angles of T7 acute and posteriorly directed (Fig. 71); hind margin of supra-anal fig smooth or slightly crenulate, with the lateral teeth acute in apexes (Fig. 73); anterior ventral margin of front femur with 0-3 spines and with small distal spine, and posterior ventral margin with a large distal spine. The caudal angles of T6 sometimes with an acute spine separately may confuse this species with species in the genus Miopanesthia , but can be distinguished by the shorter hind metatarsus, as stated in the genus remarks. Roth (1979) determined that the tegmina and wings were polymorphic in this species since the specimens he examined had both the macropterous and brachypterous forms. The tegmina and wings are fully developed (Figs 19, 69-70) or mutilated on all material of this species we examined.

Material examined.

One female, China: Hainan Prov., Mt. Jianfengling, Tianchi, 6 July 1981, collector unknown; one female, China: Hainan Prov., Changjiang, Mt. Bawangling, 8-13 July 2006, coll. Jiliang Wang and Chao Gao; three females, China: Yunnan Prov., Xishuangbanna, Dadugang, 27 April 2014, Xinran Li. (SWU).

Distribution.

China (Hainan, Yunnan); India; Myanmar; Vietnam; Thailand.