Amitermes

Amitermes
Mound of the magnetic termite Amitermes meridionalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Infraorder:	Isoptera
Family:	Termitidae
Subfamily:	Amitermitinae
Genus:	Amitermes Silvestri, 1901
Species
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Amitermes is a genus of termites in the family Termitidae. It is the second largest genus after Microcerotermes in the subfamily Amitermitinae with around one hundred species. Species are found in a range of habitats including deserts and rainforests. Characteristics of Amitermes soldiers include a bulbous head, sickle-shaped mandibles with a single tooth on their inner margins and cephalic glands on the front of their heads.^[1]

Species

About one hundred species including the following species listed by the Encyclopedia of Life:^[2][3]

• Amitermes beaumonti Banks, 1918
• Amitermes coachellae Light, 1930
• Amitermes conformis
• Amitermes cryptodon Light, 1930
• Amitermes darwini
• Amitermes dentatus
• Amitermes emersoni Light, 1930
• Amitermes ensifer Light, 1930
• Amitermes eucalypti
• Amitermes evuncifer
• Amitermes floridensis Scheffrahn, Su and Mangold, 1989
• Amitermes germanus
• Amitermes heterognathus
• Amitermes laurensis
• Amitermes lonnbergianus
• Amitermes meridionalis
• Amitermes minimus Light, 1932
• Amitermes obeuntis
• Amitermes pallidus Light, 1932
• Amitermes parvulus Light, 1932
• Amitermes parvus
• Amitermes silvestrianus Light, 1930
• Amitermes snyderi Light, 1930
• Amitermes vitiosus
• Amitermes wheeleri (Desneux, 1906)

References

1. Scheffrahn, Rudolf H.; Huchet, Jean-Bernard (2010). "A new termite species (Isoptera: Termitidae: Termitinae: Amitermes) and first record of a Subterranean Termite from the Coastal Desert of South America". Zootaxa. 2328: 65–68. ISSN 1175-5334.
2. "Amitermes". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
3. "Amitermes meridionalis". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-02-01.