Amitermes

Amitermes is a genus of termites in the family Termitidae. It is the second largest genus after Microcerotermes in the subfamily Amitermitinae with around one hundred species. Species are found in a range of habitats including deserts and rainforests. Characteristics of Amitermes soldiers include a bulbous head, sickle-shaped mandibles with a single tooth on their inner margins and cephalic glands on the front of their heads.[1]

Amitermes
Mound of the magnetic termite
Amitermes meridionalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Blattodea
Infraorder:
Isoptera
Family:
Termitidae
Subfamily:
Amitermitinae
Genus:
Amitermes

Silvestri, 1901
Species
See text
Amitermes hastatus (black mound termites) from the Western Cape region of South Africa repairing a section of their distinctive black mounds. Most of the termites are soldiers.

Species

About one hundred species including the following species listed by the Encyclopedia of Life:[2][3]

  • Amitermes beaumonti Banks, 1918
  • Amitermes coachellae Light, 1930
  • Amitermes conformis
  • Amitermes cryptodon Light, 1930
  • Amitermes darwini
  • Amitermes dentatus
  • Amitermes emersoni Light, 1930
  • Amitermes ensifer Light, 1930
  • Amitermes eucalypti
  • Amitermes evuncifer
  • Amitermes floridensis Scheffrahn, Su and Mangold, 1989
  • Amitermes germanus
  • Amitermes hastatus[4][5][6]
  • Amitermes heterognathus
  • Amitermes laurensis
  • Amitermes lonnbergianus
  • Amitermes meridionalis
  • Amitermes minimus Light, 1932
  • Amitermes obeuntis
  • Amitermes pallidus Light, 1932
  • Amitermes parvulus Light, 1932
  • Amitermes parvus
  • Amitermes silvestrianus Light, 1930
  • Amitermes snyderi Light, 1930
  • Amitermes vitiosus
  • Amitermes wheeleri (Desneux, 1906)

References
  1. Scheffrahn, Rudolf H.; Huchet, Jean-Bernard (2010). "A new termite species (Isoptera: Termitidae: Termitinae: Amitermes) and first record of a Subterranean Termite from the Coastal Desert of South America". Zootaxa. 2328: 65–68. ISSN 1175-5334.
  2. "Amitermes". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  3. "Amitermes meridionalis". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  4. Krishna, Kumar; Grimaldi, David A.; Krishna, Valerie; Engel, Michael S. (2013). "Treatise on the Isoptera of the World. Volume 6: Termitidae (part three), incertae sedis, taxa excluded from Isoptera" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 377: 1993–2432.
  5. Wilson, Edward O. (2000). Sociobiology : the new synthesis (25th anniversary ed.). Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Belknap Pr. of Harvard Univ. Pr. ISBN 978-0-674-00089-6.
  6. S. H. Skaife (1954). "THE BLACK-MOUND TERMITE OF THE CAPE, AMITERMES ATLANTICUS FULLER". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 34: 251–271. doi:10.1080/00359195409518986.


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