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Indotermes rongrensis (Roonwal & Chhotani, 1962)

Nomenclature (9)

  • Speculitermes cyclops rongrensis Roonwal & Chhotani, 1962a: 314-316.

    Holotype; worker/pseudoworker; 6cbce15f-bf3b-4536-acc7-f282b0d9587c; deposited at: Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, West Bengal, India (ZSI);

  • Indotermes pakistanicus Chaudhry & Ahmad, 1972 in Chaudhry, Ahmad, Malik, Akhtar & Arshad, 1972: 42. (nomen nudum in Krishna, Grimaldi, Krishna & Engel, 2013: 1400)
  • Indotermes rongrensis (Roonwal & Chhotani, 1962) in Roonwal & Chhotani, 1986: 155-163.
  • Doonitermes buxensis Thakur & Sen-Sarma, 1980 (subjective synonym of Speculitermes cyclops rongrensis Roonwal & Chhotani, 1962) in Chhotani, 1997: 14.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • 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.
  • Chaudhry, M.I., Ahmad, M., Malik, N.K., Akhtar, M.S. & Arshad, M. (1972) Termites of Pakistan: identity, distribution and ecological relationships [final technical report]. Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar, Pakistan. [xiv + 70 + 3 pp. + 3 pls.]
  • Akhtar, M.S. (1975) Taxonomy and zoogeography of the termites (Isoptera) of Bangladesh. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology, University of the Panjab, 7, 1–199.
  • Thakur, M.L. & Sen-Sarma, P.K. (1980b) A new species of termite genus Doonitermes Chatterjee and Thakur (Isoptera: Termitidae: Amitermitinae) from West Bengal, India. Bulletin of Entomology (Madras), 14(1973), 85–90.
  • Roonwal, M.L. & Chhotani, O.B. (1986) The identity of the South Asian termite Indotermes rongrensis (R. and C.) (synonyms Speculitermes cyclops rongrensis and I. bangladeshiensis) (Isoptera, Indotermitidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 83, 155–163.
  • Chhotani, O.B. (1997) The fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Isoptera (Termites): (family Termitidae). Vol. 2. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. 800 pp.
  • 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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