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Blattodea Species File
Species

Calcaritermes temnocephalus (Silvestri, 1901)

Nomenclature (7)

  • Calotermes [sic] temnocephalus Silvestri, 1901: 2.

    Lectotype; soldier; b5d20fcc-9b4e-4c3e-8570-dcc38a1b1734; deposited at: Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark (UZM);

  • Kalotermes (Calcaritermes) thompsonae Snyder, 1926a: 23-24.

    Syntype; imago/alate, soldier; 5e998441-df10-42ff-b492-8387133a419b; deposited at: US National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (USNM);

  • Calcaritermes temnocephalus (Silvestri, 1901) in Snyder, 1949a: 54.
  • Kalotermes (Calcaritermes) fairchildi Snyder, 1926 (subjective synonym of Calotermes [sic] temnocephalus Silvestri, 1901) in Scheffrahn, 2011: 43.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Krishna, K. (1962a) New species and a hitherto undescribed imago caste of the genus Calcaritermes Snyder (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae). American Museum Novitates, 2098, 1–13.
  • Scheffrahn, R.H. (2011) Distribution, diversity, mesonotal morphology, gallery architecture, and queen phyogastry of the termite genus Calcaritermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae). ZooKeys 148, 41–53.
  • Silvestri, F. (1901) Nota preliminare sui Termitidi sud-americani. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 16(389), 1–8. [in Italian]
  • Snyder, T.E. (1922) New termites from Hawaii, Central and South America, and the Antilles. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60, 1–32 + 5 pls.
  • Snyder, T.E. (1926a) New termites from Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Colombia. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 16(1), 18–28.
  • Snyder, T.E. (1926d) Change of name of Isoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 28(2), 51.
  • Snyder, T.E. (1949a) Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 112(3953), 1–490.

Other references (0)

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1034