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Issue: Vol. 4370 No. 3: 11 Jan. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-01-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.3.6
Page range: 275–278
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 3

Reexamination of the identity and status of the termite taxa described by Czerwinski (1901) from southern Brazil (Isoptera: Termitidae)

Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil.
Isoptera Termitidae

Abstract

Czerwinski (1901) (sometimes spelled Tscherwinsky) described four new termite taxa in a publication about the termite collection of the former Zoological Cabinet of the Imperial Warsaw University (currently Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, MZPW): Eutermes burmeisteri and Eutermes rippertii iheringi from southern Brazil, Eutermes canariensis from the Canary Islands, and Eutermes nasonovi from Madagascar.

 

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