Amitermes

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Dictyoptera
Ordo: Blattodea
Superfamilia: Blattoidea
Epifamilia: Termitoidae

Familia: Termitidae
Subfamilia: Amitermitinae
Genus: Amitermes
References

Scheffrahn, R.H.; Huchet, J.-B. 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. Preview

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 hastatus[4][5][6]
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

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.
"Amitermes". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
"Amitermes meridionalis". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
Krishna, Kumar; Grimaldi, David A.; Krishna, Valerie; Engel, Michael S. (2013). "Treatise on the Isoptera of the World. Volume 6: Termitidae (part three), incertae sedis, taxa excluded from Isoptera" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 377: 1993–2432.
Wilson, Edward O. (2000). Sociobiology : the new synthesis (25th anniversary ed.). Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Belknap Pr. of Harvard Univ. Pr. ISBN 978-0-674-00089-6.
S. H. Skaife (1954). "THE BLACK-MOUND TERMITE OF THE CAPE, AMITERMES ATLANTICUS FULLER". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 34: 251–271. doi:10.1080/00359195409518986.