Stolotermitidae
Stolotermes ruficeps soldier
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Infraorder: Isoptera
Parvorder: Euisoptera
Family: Stolotermitidae
Holmgren, 1910

Stolotermitidae is a family of termites in the order Blattodea, with two extant genera formerly placed in the family Termopsidae. There are about 14 described species in Stolotermitidae.[1][2][3][4][5]

Genera

GBIF[1] and the Termite Catalogue[6] list the following:

  • Porotermes Hagen, 1858
  • Stolotermes Hagen, 1858
  • Chilgatermes Engel, Pan & Jacobs, 2013

References

  1. 1 2 "Stolotermitidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  2. Engel, Michael S.; Pan, Aaron D.; Jacobs, Bonnie F. (2013). "A Termite from the Late Oligocene of Northern Ethiopia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 58 (2). doi:10.4202/app.2011.0198. hdl:1808/14420.
  3. Engel, M. S.; Grimaldi, D. A.; Krishna, K. (2009). "Termites (Isoptera): their phylogeny, classification, and rise to ecological dominance". American Museum Novitates (3650): 1–27. doi:10.1206/651.1. hdl:2246/5969. ISSN 0003-0082. S2CID 56166416.
  4. Engel, Michael S. (2011). "Family-Group Names for Termites (Isoptera), redux". ZooKeys (148): 171–184. doi:10.3897/zookeys.148.1682. PMC 3264418. PMID 22287896.
  5. Beccaloni, George W.; Eggleton, Paul (2013). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Blattodea. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa. 3148. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1.
  6. Termite Catalogue (retrieved 22 July 2019)

Further reading

  • Krishna, Kumar; Grimaldi, David A.; Krishna, Valerie; Engel, Michael S. (2013). "Treatise on the Isoptera of the world". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (377). hdl:2246/6430.

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