Cryptotermes
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Ordo: Isoptera
Familia: Kalotermitidae
Name
Cryptotermes Banks, 1906 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Cryptotermes – Banks, 1906: 336. Type species, by monotypy: Cryptotermes cavifrons Banks, 1906.
- Cryptotermes Banks – Krishna 1961[1]: 379–382, Figs 77–80 (redescription).
Stages
Imagos of Cryptotermes can be recognized by the combination of the following criteria: left imago mandible with anterior margin of third marginal tooth clearly longer than posterior margin of first plus second marginals, and media vein bending forward to join radial sector in middle of wing or beyond.
Soldiers of Cryptotermes have a phragmotic head (like those of Calcaritermes) and all fore tibial spurs approximately equal.
Taxon Treatment
- Roisin, Y; 2011: Cryptotermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu: Redescription of Cryptotermes albipes (Holmgren & Holmgren) and description of Cryptotermes penaoru sp. n. ZooKeys, 138: 31-40. doi
Other References
- ↑ Krishna K (1961) Generic revision and phylogenetic study of the family Kalotermitidae (Isoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 122: 303-408.
