Serritermitidae

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: Isoptera

Familia: Serritermitidae
Genera: Serritermes – Glossotermes
Name

Serritermitidae Emerson & Krishna, 1975
References

Cancello, E. & DeSouza, O. (2004) A new species of Glossotermes (Isoptera): reappraisal of the genus status, with transfer from the Rhinotermitidae to the Serritermitidae. Sociobiology 44(3)
Emerson, A.E. & Krishna, K. (1975) "The termite family Serritermitidae (Isoptera)." American Museum Novitates 2570:1-31.

Vernacular names
latviešu: Matugrosu termītu dzimta
中文: 齿白蚁科

Serritermitidae is a family of termites belonging to the infraorder Isoptera in the order Blattodea. The family includes only a few species, which live in South America.

Appearance

These termites are much like the family Rhinotermitidae, to which they are related. The soldiers' jaws are sharply toothed on the inner side. At all stages, the mandible is strikingly sharp. The flying stages have fore wings with only one lengdeåre, slightly ahead of the center of the wing. From this it affects numerous oblique veins to the wing trailing edge.
Habits

They are located in or on the ground. Their mode of life resembles the family Rhinotermitidae. Serritermes serrifer lives in the walls of the tufts of termites in the genus Cornitermes (Termitidae).
Prevalence

S. serresi is known from the states of Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso, Brazil. The two Glossotermes species are known only from the Amazon region of Brazil.
References

Emerson, A.E. & K. Krishna. 1975