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Nomenclature (13)

  • Termes destructor Fabricius, 1781: 396-397.

    Syntypes; imago/alate; 8968b0e0-1d25-47d9-bb92-9db8b55e66fc; deposited at: Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (ZMUC);

  • Termes nigriceps Haldeman, 1854: 365.

    Syntypes; soldier, worker/pseudoworker; a9db9139-c54b-4dc8-bbfd-e07c70214664; deposited at: Unknown (Unknown);

  • Termes destructor Fabricius, 1781 (incertae sedis in Nasutitermitinae Hare, 1937) in Krishna, Grimaldi, Krishna & Engel, 2013: 1899.
  • Nasutitermes dasyopsis Thorne, 1989 (subjective synonym of Termes nigriceps Haldeman, 1854) in Scheffrahn, Roisin, Szalanski, Austin & Duquesne, 2024: 66. Classification

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Fabricius, J.C. (1781) Species insectorvm exhibentes eorvm differentias specificas, synonyma avctorvm, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibvs, descriptionibvs. Tom. I. Carol. Ernest. Bohnii, Hamburg, 552 pp. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12058738
  • Haldeman, S.S. (1854) Descriptions of some new species of insects, with observations on described species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 6, 361–365.
  • Holmgren, N.F. (1910c) Versuch einer Monographie der amerikanischen Eutermes-Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum (Hamburg), 27, 171–325.
  • Light, S.F. (1933) Termites of western Mexico. University of California Publications in Entomology 6, 79–164.
  • Hare, L. (1937) Termite phylogeny as evidenced by soldier mandible development. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 37, 459–486.
  • Snyder, T.E. (1949a) Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 112(3953), 1–490.
  • Zimsen, E. (1964) The type material of I.C. Fabricius. Munksgaard, Copenhagen. 656 pp.
  • Thorne, B.L. & Levings, S.C. (1989) A new species of Nasutitermes (Isoptera: Termitidae) from Panama. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 62(3), 342–347.
  • 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.
  • Scheffrahn, R.H., Roisin, Y., Szalanski, A.L., Austin, J.W. & Duquesne, E. (2024) Expanded range of Nasutitermes callimorphus Mathews, 1977 (Isoptera: Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae), comparison with N. corniger (Motschulsky, 1855) and N. ephratae (Holmgren, 1910), and synonymy of N. dasyopsis Thorne, 1989 into N. nigriceps (Haldeman, 1854). Zootaxa, 5507(1), 57–78. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5507.1.2

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1067