Amitermes Explained

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

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)

Notes and References

1. Scheffrahn, Rudolf H. . Huchet, Jean-Bernard . 2010 . A new termite species (Isoptera: Termitidae: Termitinae: Amitermes) and first record of a Subterranean Termite from the Coastal Desert of South America . Zootaxa . 2328 . 65–68 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2328.1.3 . 1175-5334 .
2. Web site: Amitermes . Encyclopedia of Life . 2014-02-01.
3. Web site: Amitermes meridionalis . Encyclopedia of Life . 2014-02-01.
4. Krishna . Kumar . Grimaldi . David A. . Krishna . Valerie . Engel . Michael S. . Treatise on the Isoptera of the World. Volume 6: Termitidae (part three), incertae sedis, taxa excluded from Isoptera. . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 2013 . 377 . 1993–2432 .
5. Book: Wilson. Edward O.. Sociobiology : the new synthesis. 2000. Belknap Pr. of Harvard Univ. Pr.. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]. 978-0-674-00089-6. 25th anniversary.
6. THE BLACK-MOUND TERMITE OF THE CAPE, AMITERMES ATLANTICUS FULLER. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 34. 251–271. S. H. Skaife. 1954. 1 . 10.1080/00359195409518986. 1954TRSSA..34..251S .