The rhino cockroach is the largest and longest-lived cockroach, native to Australia, and is the world's heaviest cockroach in records , it sometimes takes 5 years to mature, and the lifespan can exceed 10 years. Unlike other cockroaches, they have no wings. Rhino cockroaches have some intelligence and are generally not considered pests. Some people use them as Pets.

Chinese name: Rhinoceros cockroach

Latin name: Macropanesthia rhinoceros

Alternative names: Rhinoceros cockroach, Australian rhinoceros cockroach, Giant burrowing cockroach

Kingdom: Animalia

Class: Insecta

Order: Blattidae

Family: Blattidae (Geochelidae)

It has short but powerful spiky limbs and a strong, textured shell. Adult individuals can grow up to 8.3 cm in length and weigh up to 63 grams. Both males and females have no wings and are poor at climbing, but are good at digging. They are very intelligent and long-lived insects. The sex of the rhino cockroach can be judged by the presence or absence of a depression on the top of the head, males have them and females do not.

They feed on fallen leaves, especially eucalyptus leaves, and recycle other substances, in the ecosystem plays an extremely important role. They can dig burrows up to 1 meter deep in the soil and use the burrows as a permanent home.