Species
Tucupitermes ubixaba Almeida-Azevedo, Acioli & de Azevedo, 2025
Nomenclature (1)
- Tucupitermes ubixaba Almeida-Azevedo, Acioli & de Azevedo, 2025 in Almeida-Azevedo, Acioli, Heleodoro, de Morais, Brown, Kille, Cunha & de Azevedo, 2025: 191.
Holotype; worker/pseudoworker; d2c4547c-1465-4c12-b769-5b2749688a6c; deposited at: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas de Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil (INPA); Brasil, Pará, Santarém, 2º41'13.90"S, 54º55'3.30"W. Manual sampling, 22.05.2015. A. N. S. Acioli col.
Nomenclature references (1)
- Almeida-Azevedo, R., Acioli, A.N.S., Heleodoro, R.A., de Morais, J.W., Brown, G.G., Kille, P., Cunha, L. & de Azevedo, R.A. (2025) Tucupitermes, the largest Apicotermitinae (Isoptera, Termitidae) from the Amazon Rainforest. Zootaxa, 5633(1), 186–194. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.1.11
Other references (0)
Descendants and synonyms
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
From the Tupi-Gurani “ub-i-xaba”, which means “indigenous leader, foreman, enormous, large, immense” in reference to the size of the workers, which are comparatively larger than other Neotropical Apicotermitinae.