Stolotermitidae
| Stolotermitidae | |
|---|---|
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| Stolotermes ruficeps soldier | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Infraorder: | Isoptera |
| Parvorder: | Euisoptera |
| Family: | Stolotermitidae Holmgren, 1910 |
Stolotermitidae is a family of termites in the order Blattodea, with two extant genera formerly placed in the family Termopsidae. There are about 14 described species in Stolotermitidae.[1][2][3][4][5]
Genera
[edit]GBIF[1] and the Termite Catalogue[6] list the following:
- Porotermes Hagen, 1858
- Stolotermes Hagen, 1858
- † Chilgatermes Engel, Pan & Jacobs, 2013
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Stolotermitidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ Engel, Michael S.; Pan, Aaron D.; Jacobs, Bonnie F. (2013). "A Termite from the Late Oligocene of Northern Ethiopia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 58 (2). doi:10.4202/app.2011.0198. hdl:1808/14420.
- ^ Engel, M. S.; Grimaldi, D. A.; Krishna, K. (2009). "Termites (Isoptera): their phylogeny, classification, and rise to ecological dominance". American Museum Novitates (3650): 1–27. doi:10.1206/651.1. hdl:2246/5969. ISSN 0003-0082. S2CID 56166416.
- ^ Engel, Michael S. (2011). "Family-Group Names for Termites (Isoptera), redux". ZooKeys (148): 171–184. Bibcode:2011ZooK..148..171E. doi:10.3897/zookeys.148.1682. PMC 3264418. PMID 22287896.
- ^ Beccaloni, George W.; Eggleton, Paul (2013). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Blattodea. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa. 3148. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1.
- ^ Termite Catalogue (retrieved 22 July 2019)
Further reading
[edit]External links
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Data related to Stolotermitidae at Wikispecies