Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 5353 No. 3: 10 Oct. 2023
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2023-10-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.3.7
Page range: 294-300
Abstract views: 417
PDF downloaded: 25

Acorhinotermes murui sp. nov. (Blattodea: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae:Rhinotermitinae), a new termite species from the Amazon basin

Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI; Avenida Vásquez Cobo Calles 15 y 16; Leticia; Amazonas; Colombia
Blattodea Isoptera Rhinotermitidae Rhinotermitinae

References

  1. Ackerman, I.L., Constantino, R., Gauch, H.G., Lehmann, J., Riha, S.J. & Fernandes, E.C.M. (2009) Termite (Insecta: Isoptera) species composition in a primary rain forest and agroforests in central Amazonia. Biotropica, 41, 226–233. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00479.x
  2. Bini, L.M., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Rangel, T.F.L.V.B., Bastos, R.P. & Pinto, M.P. (2006) Challenging Wallacean and Linnean shortfalls: Knowledge gradients and conservation planning in a biodiversity hotspot. Diversity and Distributions, 12, 475–482. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00286.x
  3. Castro, D. & Scheffrahn, R.H. (2019) A new species of Acorhinotermes Emerson , 1949 (Blattodea , Isoptera , Rhinotermitidae) from Colombia , with a key to Neotropical Rhinotermitinae species based on minor soldiers. ZooKeys, 891, 61–70. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.891.37523
  4. Constantino, R. (2022) Termite Database. University of Brasília. Available from: http://164.41.140.9/catal/about.php (accessed 23 September 2022)
  5. Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Valladares Romero, C.S. & Espinosa Iñiguez, C.I. (2020) Termite Diversity in Ecuador: A Comparison of Two Primary Forest National Parks. Journal of Insect Science, 20 (1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1093/JISESA/IEZ129
  6. Hortal, J., De Bello, F., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Lewinsohn, T.M., Lobo, J.M. & Ladle, R.J. (2015) Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054400 46, 523–549. https://doi.org/10.1146/ANNUREV-ECOLSYS-112414-054400
  7. Maiti, P. (2011) A taxonomic monograph on the world species of termites of the family Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera: Insecta). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India, 20, 1–272.
  8. Noirot, C. (1995) The gut of termites (Isoptera) comparative anatomy, systematics, phylogeny. I. Lower termites. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr., New Series, 31, 197–226.
  9. Rocha, M.M., Cuezzo, C., Constantini, J.P., Oliveira, D.E., Santos, R.G., Carrijo, T.F. & Cancello, E.M. (2019) Overview of the morphology of Neotropical termite workers: history and practice. Sociobiology, 66, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v66i1.2067
  10. Roonwal, M.L. (1970) Measurements of termites (Isoptera) for taxonomic purposes. Journal of the Zoological Society of India, 21, 9–66.
  11. Scheffrahn, R.H. (2022) University of Florida Termite Collection (UFTC). Available from: https://www.termitediversity.org/ (accessed 22 September 2022)
  12. da Silva, I.S., Vasconcellos, A. & Moura, F.M. da S. (2019) Termite assemblages (Blattaria, isoptera) in two montane forest (brejo de altitude) areas in northeastern brazil. Biota Neotropica, 19, e20180519. https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2018-0519
  13. Snyder, T.E. (1949) Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 112, 9–378.
  14. de Souza, O.F.F. & Brown, V.K. (1994) Effects of habitat fragmentation on Amazonian termite communities. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 10, 197. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400007847