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]
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| Mound of the magnetic termite Amitermes meridionalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Infraorder: | Isoptera |
| Family: | Termitidae |
| Subfamily: | Termitinae |
| Genus: | Amitermes Silvestri, 1901 |
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Species
editAbout 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
edit- ^ 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2328.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ "Amitermes". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- ^ "Amitermes meridionalis". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- ^ Krishna, Kumar; Grimaldi, David A.; Krishna, Valerie; Engel, Michael S. (2013). "Treatise on the Isoptera of the World. Volume 6: Termitidae (part three), incertae sedis, taxa excluded from Isoptera" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 377: 1993–2432.
- ^ Wilson, Edward O. (2000). Sociobiology : the new synthesis (25th anniversary ed.). Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Belknap Pr. of Harvard Univ. Pr. ISBN 978-0-674-00089-6.
- ^ S. H. Skaife (1954). "THE BLACK-MOUND TERMITE OF THE CAPE, AMITERMES ATLANTICUS FULLER". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 34 (1): 251–271. Bibcode:1954TRSSA..34..251S. doi:10.1080/00359195409518986.
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