Princisia

{{Short description|Species of large cockroach}}

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| image = Princisia vanwaerebeki - Wilhelma Zoo - Stuttgart, Germany - DSC02555.jpg

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| genus = Princisia

| parent_authority = van Herrewege, 1973

| species = vanwaerebeki

| authority = van Herrewege, 1973

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Princisia vanwaerebeki, commonly known as the vibrant hisser,{{Cite web |title=Vibrant Hisser |url=https://capecodroaches.com/products/vibrant-hisser |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=capecodroaches.com}} is a large, flightless species of hissing cockroach in the family Blaberidae, and the only member of the genus Princisia.{{Cite web| url=http://cockroach.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1174416 | title=Species Princisia vanwaerebeki van Herrewege, 1973 | publisher= Cockroach Species File | access-date=26 June 2023 }}{{cite journal| last=Van Herrewege | first=C. | year=1973 | title=Contribution à l'étude des Blattaria de la faune malgache. I. Princisia, gen. nov., voisin de Gromphadorhina Brunner v. W. Description d'une espèce nouvelle | url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/linly_0366-1326_1973_num_42_10_10090 | journal=Publications de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon | volume=42-10 | pages=262–267 }} It is endemic to southeastern Madagascar, and sometimes seen in the pet trade.{{cite journal| last=Delfosse | first=E. | year=2004 | title=Les blattes souffleuses de Madagascar | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318563118_Les_Blattes_souffleuses_de_Madagascar_-_Genres_Elliptorhina_Herrewege_1973_Gromphadorhina_Brunner_1865_et_Princisia_Herrewege_1973_Insecta_Dictyopteroidea_Blattodea_Blaberoidea_Blaberidae_Oxyhaloinae_ | journal=Insectes | volume=153 | issue=4 | pages=19–22 }}

It is named in honour of two people: Karlis Princis for the genus name and Daniel van Waerebek, a helminthologist in Antananarivo, for the specific (species) name.{{Cite journal |last=Delfosse |first=Emmanuel |date=2006 |title=Sur la taxinomie, la répartition et la biologie des Blattes souffleuses de Madagascar des genres Elliptorhina van Herrewege, 1973; Gromphadorina Brunner, 1865 et Princisia van Herrewege, 1973 (Insecta : Blattodea : Blaberidae) |trans-title=On the taxonomy, distribution, and biology of the hissing cockroaches of Madagascar of the genera Elliptorhina van Herrewege, 1973; Gromphadorina Brunner, 1865 and Princisia van Herrewege, 1973 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318373661 |journal=Le Bulletin d'Arthropoda |language=fr |volume=30 |via=ResearchGate}} It is a very large species, growing between {{cvt|5.6|and|10|cm}} in length. Larger specimens are usually male. Females usually live up to three years. It is one of several species of cockroach sometimes infected by Blabericola migrator, a parasitic alveolate.{{Cite journal |last1=Steele |first1=Shelby M. |last2=Clopton |first2=Debra T. |last3=Clopton |first3=Richard E. |date=2012 |title=Excystation Signals Do Not Isolate Gregarine Gene Pools: Experimental Excystation of Blabericola migrator Among 11 Species of Cockroaches |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/ge-3122.1 |journal=Journal of Parasitology |volume=98 |issue=5 |pages=946–950 |doi=10.1645/ge-3122.1 |pmid=22540337 |s2cid=42831918 |issn=0022-3395|url-access=subscription }}