Species

Isognathotermes severus (Silvestri, 1914)

Nomenclature (11)

Cubitermes severus Silvestri, 1914a: 92-93.
Syntypes; queen, worker/pseudoworker, soldier; bd0deacc-426c-435e-acbb-091ea2dc390b; deposited at: Instituto di Entomologia Agraria, Portici, Italy (IEA);
Cubitermes severus modestior Silvestri, 1914a: 93-94.
Syntypes; queen, soldier, worker/pseudoworker; ca8a188f-ce82-4c3e-8429-ad040de2d141; deposited at: Instituto di Entomologia Agraria, Portici, Italy (IEA);

Cubitermes silvestrii Sjöstedt, 1925 (subjective synonym of Cubitermes severus Silvestri, 1914) in Josens, Deligne, Harry, Roy, Akama, Coulibaly, Dosso, Goergen, Hasson, Kasangij a Kasangij, Kifukieto, Le Ru, Loko, Ndiaye, Roisin, Sion, Šobotnik, Stiblik, Kue Di Kuenda, Traoré, Viage, Wango, Kaymak, Bourguignon & Hellemans, 2025: 127. Classification
Isognathotermes severus (Silvestri, 1914) in Josens, Deligne, Harry, Roy, Akama, Coulibaly, Dosso, Goergen, Hasson, Kasangij a Kasangij, Kifukieto, Le Ru, Loko, Ndiaye, Roisin, Sion, Šobotnik, Stiblik, Kue Di Kuenda, Traoré, Viage, Wango, Kaymak, Bourguignon & Hellemans, 2025: 127. Description/Redescription

Silvestri, F. (1914a) Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei Termitidi e Termitofili dell’Africa occidentale. I. Termitidi. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d’Agricoltura in Portici, 9, 1–146. [in Italian]
Hegh, E. (1922) Les termites. Partie générale: description, distribution géographique. Classification. Biologie. Vie sociale. Alimentation. Construction. Rapports avec le monde extérieur. Imprimerie Industrielle and Financière (Société Anonyme), Bruxelles, 4 + 756 pp.

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
Josens, G., Deligne, J., Harry, M., Roy, V., Akama, P.D., Coulibaly, T., Dosso, K., Goergen, G., Hasson, M., Kasangij a Kasangij, P., Kifukieto, C., Le Ru, B., Loko, L.E.Y., Ndiaye, A.B., Roisin, Y., Sion, N., Šobotnik, J., Stiblik, P., Kue Di Kuenda, S., … Hellemans, S. (2025) An integrative revision of the genus Isognathotermes (Termitidae: Cubitermitinae) with description of seven new species and four new subspecies. European Journal of Taxonomy, 1024, 1–197. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1024.3099

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	7	8

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

The epithet severus means ‘serious, earnest’ in Latin.