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Genus

Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890

Nomenclature (12)

  • Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890b: 158.

    type species by subsequent designation Eutermes (Eutermes) costalis Holmgren, 1910 in Emerson, 1925: 375-376, Constantino, 2002: 533-537, Engel & Krishna, 2005a: 11, Engel & Krishna, 2005b: 240, Roisin, 2005: 149-150, and International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, 2007: 73

  • Milesnasitermes Dudley, 1890a: 109.

    type species by subsequent designation Eutermes (Eutermes) costalis Holmgren, 1910 in Krishna, Grimaldi, Krishna & Engel, 2013: 1641

  • Mironasutitermes Gao & He, 1990 (subjective synonym of Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890) in Ahmad & Akhtar, 2002: 66-67.
  • Milesnasitermes Dudley, 1890 (objective synonym of Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890) in Krishna, Grimaldi, Krishna & Engel, 2013: 1641.

Nomenclature references (18)

  • Dudley, P.H. (1890a) The termites of the Isthmus of Panama. Journal of the New York Microscopical Society, 6(4), 102–110, 117–118.
  • Dudley, P.H. (1890b) Termites of the Isthmus of Panama.–Part II. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 9, 157–180.
  • Emerson, A.E. (1925) The termites of Kartabo, Bartica District, British Guiana. Zoologica. Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society 6, 291–459.
  • Light, S.F. (1930f) Notes on Philippine termites, IV. Philippine Journal of Science, 42(1), 13–58 + 8 pls.
  • Snyder, T.E. (1949a) Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 112(3953), 1–490.
  • Sen-Sarma, P.K. (1965) A new termite genus and species from South India (Insecta: Isoptera: Termitidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Society, Calcutta, 18(2), 143–148.
  • Ahmad, M. (1969) On the taxonomic validity of Fletcheritermes Sen-Sarma (Isoptera, Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae). Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 1(2), 181–182.
  • Thakur, M.L. (1976e) A new nasute termite from South India (Isoptera: Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae). The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 72(3), 781–785 + 2 pls.
  • Gao, D.-R. & He, X.-S. (1990) Three new species of the new genus Mironasutitermes from China (Isoptera: Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae). Contributions from the Shanghai Institute of Entomology, 8, 179–188. [1988; in Chinese]
  • 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.
  • Gathorne-Hardy, F.J. (2001) A review of the south-east Asian Nasutitermitinae (Isoptera: Termidae [sic]), with descriptions of one new genus and a new species and including a key to the genera. Journal of Natural History 35, 1485–1506.
  • Ahmad, M. & Akhtar, M.S. (2002) Catalogue of the Termites (Isoptera) of the Oriental Region. Pakistan Journal of Zoology (Supplement), 2, 1–86.
  • Constantino, R. (2002) Notes on the type-species and synonymy of the genus Nasutitermes (Isoptera: Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae). Sociobiology 40, 533–537.
  • Engel, M.S. & Krishna, K. (2005a) Case 3292. Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890, Microcerotermes Silvestri, 1901 and Nasutitermitinae Hare, 1937 (Insecta, Isoptera): proposed conservation. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 62(1), 8–13.
  • Engel, M.S. & Krishna, K. (2005b) Comment on the proposed suppression of Eutermes Heer, 1849 to conserve the generic names Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890 and Microcerotermes Silvestri, 1901, and on the proposed designation of Eutermes costalis Holmgren, 1910 as type species of Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890 (Insecta, Isoptera). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 62(4), 240.
  • Roisin, Y. (2005) Comment on the proposed conservation of Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890, Microcerotermes Silvestri, 1901 and Nasutitermitinae Hare, 1937 (Insecta, Isoptera). (Case 3292). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 62, 149–150.
  • International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, I.C.Z.N. (2007) Opinion 2168 (Case 3292). Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890, Microcerotermes Silvestri, 1901 and Nasutitermitinae Hare, 1937 (Insecta, Isoptera): application to conserve names not approved. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 64(1), 73–74.
  • Krishna, K., Grimaldi, D.A., Krishna, V. & Engel, M.S. (2013) Treatise on the Isoptera of the World: 5. TERMITIDAE (PART TWO). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 377, 1499–1992.

Other references (0)

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1067
Subgenus1001
Species2479265521
Subspecies120719