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Blattodea Species File
Species

Amitermes laurensis (Mjöberg, 1920)

Nomenclature (9)

  • Hamitermes (Hamitermes) laurensis Mjöberg, 1920: 74-75.

    Lectotype; soldier; 7b1f79c8-6482-4e9e-b2e8-3bb89f065566; deposited at: Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (NHRM);

  • Hamitermes perplexus Hill, 1922a: 381-388.

    Lectotype; imago/alate, male; 79971a0c-97f9-42ab-a0e4-e8bdbbd58423; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC);

  • Hamitermes wilsoni Hill, 1922 (subjective synonym of Hamitermes (Hamitermes) laurensis Mjöberg, 1920) in Hill, 1942: 330.
  • Amitermes laurensis (Mjöberg, 1920) in Snyder, 1949a: 120.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Banks, N. (1920) Part 1. Taxonomy. In N. Banks and T.E. Snyder, A revision of the Nearctic termites [Banks], with notes on the biology and distribution of termites [Snyder]. United States National Museum Bulletin, 108, 1–85. [i]–viii + 1–228 + 35 pls.]
  • Mjöberg, E. (1920) Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg’s Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia, 1910–1913. 19. Isoptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 12, 1–128.
  • Hill, G.F. (1922a) On some Australian termites of the genera Drepanotermes, Hamitermes and Leucotermes. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 12(4), 363–399 + 4 pls.
  • Hill, G.F. (1922b) Descriptions and biology of some north Australian termites. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 47(2), 142–160 + 3 pls.
  • Wheeler, W.M. (1936) Ecological relations of ponerine and other ants to termites. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 71(3), 159–243.
  • Hill, G.F. (1942) Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian region. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Melbourne. 479 pp. + 24 pls.
  • Snyder, T.E. (1949a) Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 112(3953), 1–490.
  • Watson, J.A.L., Miller, L.R. & Abbey, H.M. (1998) Isoptera. In: W. W. K. Houston and A. Wells (Eds), Zoological catalogue of Australia. Vol. 23: Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 163–250. [Xiii + 464 pp.]

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Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1045