Panesthia cribrata

Australian wood cockroach
	cockroach found near St Georges Basin, New South Wales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Family:	Blaberidae
Subfamily:
Genus:
Species:	P. cribrata
Binomial name
	Panesthia cribrata; Saussure 1864
Synonyms
	Panesthia cetrifera Rehn, 1904; Panesthia laevicollis Saussure, 1873; Proterodia punctatissima Costa, 1866; Panesthia quadriglumis Saussure, 1895;

Panesthia cribrata, commonly called the Australian wood cockroach, is a wood-eating species found in rotten logs. It is found from south east Queensland south to the east coast to Tasmania, also seen at Norfolk Island.^[2] It depends on wood for sustenance,^[3] and manufactures enzymes that digest cellulose.^[4]

References[]

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^ http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Panesthia+cribrata "Panesthia cribrata Saussure, 1864" Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved June 30, 2016. author: Burwell of the Queensland Museum
^ Revista Brasileira de Pesquisas Médicas E Biológicas. Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica. 1988. p. 706. Retrieved 30 June 2016. Acetate and butyrate are transported to a significantly greater extent in Panesthia cribrata than in Periplaneta americana hindguts, which agrees with the fact that the former depends on wood for food (Hogan et al, 1985).
^ Waldbauer, Gilbert (30 June 2009). What Good Are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life. Harvard University Press. p. 305. ISBN 9780674044746. According to Michael Martin, a very few insects, including a few termites, a few long-horned beetles, and the Australian cockroach Panesthia cribrata, can themselves secrete the enzymes that digest cellulose.

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[2] ttp://bie.ala.org.au/species/Panesthia+cribrata "Panesthia cribrata Saussure, 1864" Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved June 30, 2016. author: Burwell of the Queensland Museum

[3] Revista Brasileira de Pesquisas Médicas E Biológicas. Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica. 1988. p. 706. Retrieved 30 June 2016. Acetate and butyrate are transported to a significantly greater extent in Panesthia cribrata than in Periplaneta americana hindguts, which agrees with the fact that the former depends on wood for food (Hogan et al, 1985).

[Waldbauer2009-4] Waldbauer, Gilbert (30 June 2009). What Good Are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life. Harvard University Press. p. 305. ISBN 9780674044746. According to Michael Martin, a very few insects, including a few termites, a few long-horned beetles, and the Australian cockroach Panesthia cribrata, can themselves secrete the enzymes that digest cellulose.

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