Amitermes

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Amitermes
File:Flickr - brewbooks - Magnetic Termite mound - Litchfield National Park.jpg
Mound of the magnetic termite
Amitermes meridionalis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Infraorder: Isoptera
Family: Termitidae
Subfamily: Amitermitinae
Genus: Amitermes
Silvestri, 1901
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File:Amitermes atlanticus.jpg
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.

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

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

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