Amitermes
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| Amitermes | |
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| File:Flickr - brewbooks - Magnetic Termite mound - Litchfield National Park.jpg | |
| Mound of the magnetic termite Amitermes meridionalis | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Infraorder: | Isoptera |
| Family: | Termitidae |
| Subfamily: | Amitermitinae |
| Genus: | Amitermes Silvestri, 1901 |
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Amitermes is a genus of termites in the family Termitidae. 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]
Species
[edit | edit source]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
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