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Nitiditermes sankurensis (Wasmann, 1911)

Nomenclature (9)

  • Cubitermes sankurensis Wasmann, 1911c: 155.

    Syntypes; queen, imago/alate, soldier, worker/pseudoworker; 39093660-361e-43d2-a96b-a7ca26e8f689; deposited at: Natuurhistorisch Museum Museum of Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands (NHMM);

  • Eutermes (Cubitermes) cubicephalus Sjöstedt, 1913a: 373-374.

    Syntypes; soldier, worker/pseudoworker; 7a173aaf-5082-431f-b6d7-bc8986ec393b; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium (RGMC);

  • Cubitermes sankurensis elongata Sjöstedt, 1926 (subjective synonym of Cubitermes sankurensis Wasmann, 1911) in Krishna, Grimaldi, Krishna & Engel, 2013: 1934.
  • Nitiditermes sankurensis (Wasmann, 1911) in Hellemans, Deligne, Roisin & Josens, 2021: 233.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Wasmann, E. (1911c) Zur Kenntnis der Termiten und Termitengäste von Belgischen Kongo. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bruxelles), 1(1-2), 91–117, 145–176.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1913a) Über Termiten aus dem inneren Kongo, Rhodesia, und Deutsch-Ostafrika. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bruxelles), 2(3), 354–391 + 3 pls.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1924b) Neue Arten und Gattungen Afrikanischer Termiten (vorläufige Mitteilung). Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bruxelles), 12(2), 253–257.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1925) Neue Termiten aus Afrika und Madagascar. Konowia, Vienna, 4(1-2), 53–55.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1926d) Revision der Termiten Afrikas. 3. Monographie. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 3(1), 1–419.
  • Snyder, T.E. (1949a) Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 112(3953), 1–490.
  • Williams, R.M.C. (1966) The East African termites of the genus Cubitermes (Isoptera: Termitidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118, 73–118.
  • 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.
  • Hellemans, S., Deligne, J., Roisin, Y. & Josens, G. (2021) Phylogeny and revision of the ‘Cubitermes complex’ termites (Termitidae:Cubitermitinae). Systematic Entomology, 46(1), 224–238. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12458

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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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Species1045
Subspecies0000
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Etymology:

From Sankur.