Dicuspiditermes nemorosus, is a species of small termite of the genus Dicuspiditermes. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia and Borneo.[1] The species is known to build three different types of mounding nests, where two termitaria have single protruding nest structure and third nest type is typified by several protruding nest all connected at the base.[2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Infraorder: | Isoptera |
| Family: | Termitidae |
| Genus: | Dicuspiditermes |
| Species: | D. nemorosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Dicuspiditermes nemorosus (Haviland, 1898)
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References
edit- ^ "An annotated checklist of termites (Isoptera) from Sri Lanka". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ "Dicuspiditermes". termites and ants. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ "Genus Dicuspiditermes". Termite Web. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
External links
edit- The role of termites in an equatorial rain forest ecosystem of West Malaysia : I. Population density, biomass, carbon, nitrogen and calorific content and respiration rate.
- Studies on the taxonomy and biology of termites (Isoptera) of Peninsular Malaysia
- TAXONOMIC QUESTIONS ON MALAYSIAN TERMITES (ISOPTERA: TERMITIDAE) ANSWERED WITH MORPHOLOGY AND DNA BIOTECHNOLOGY
- Observations on the biology of the termite dicuspiditermes nemorosus
- The electrophoretic mobilities of total protein systems in different castes of four termite species
- Termite assemblages in two distinct montane forest types at 1000 m elevation in the Maliau Basin, Sabah
- Termite assemblages, forest disturbance and greenhouse gas fluxes in Sabah, East Malaysia
- Evolution and Systematic Significance of Wing Micro-sculpturing
- Relation between termite numbers and the size of their mounds Archived 2017-04-15 at the Wayback Machine