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Nomenclature (8)

  • Termes pallidus Haviland, 1898: 389.

    Syntypes; worker/pseudoworker, soldier, imago/alate; ed5a27e5-8c42-44bc-a434-84a8f71f9273; deposited at: Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK (CUMZ);

  • Microtermes pakistanicus Ahmad, 1955a: 25-27.

    Holotype; soldier; 6b0d3a1c-e2c5-4054-9532-61a033a42aa6; deposited at: Department of Zoology, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (ZUPL);

  • Termes pallidus Haviland, 1898 (primary homonym of Termes pallidus Rambur, 1842) in Krishna, Grimaldi, Krishna & Engel, 2013: 1006.
  • Microtermes umsae Roonwal & Chhotani, 1962 (subjective synonym of Microtermes pakistanicus Ahmad, 1955) in Krishna, Grimaldi, Krishna & Engel, 2013: 26-27.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Rambur, J.P. (1842) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Néuroptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. xvii + 534 pp. + 12 pls.
  • Haviland, G.D. (1898) Observations on termites; with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology) 26, 358–442 + 4 pls.
  • Ahmad, M. (1955a) A new termite from E. Pakistan (Isoptera: Termitidae). Biologia (Lahore), 1(1), 25–27.
  • Roonwal, M.L. & Chhotani, O.B. (1962a) Termite fauna of Assam region, eastern India. Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India, Part B, Biological Sciences, 28(4), 281–406 + 26 pls.
  • Krishna, K. (1965a) Termites (Isoptera) of Burma. American Museum Novitates, 2210, 1–34.
  • Akhtar, M. & Hussain, M. (1980) Enteric valve armature of some termite species belonging to the genera Hypotermes, Microtermes and Ancistrotermes (Isoptera). Sociobiology, 5(3), 261–271.
  • Krishna, K., Grimaldi, D.A., Krishna, V. & Engel, M.S. (2013) Treatise on the Isoptera of the World: 4. TERMITIDAE (PART ONE). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 377, 977–1498.

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Etymology:

From Pakistan.