We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Distribution, diversity, mesonotal morphology, gallery architecture, and queen physogastry of the termite genus Calcaritermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae).
- Authors
Scheffrahn, Rudolf H.
- Abstract
An updated New World distribution of the genus Calcaritermes is given along with photographs and a key to the New World species outside Mexico. Calcaritermes recessifrons is found to be a junior synonym of C. nigriceps. Except for C. temnocephalus, pseudergates of the other seven studied Calcaritermes species possess a mesonotal rasp. The rasps suggest a role in propagation of microbes on gallery surfaces and microbial infusion below the wood surface. Calcaritermes temoncephalus is shown to have an unusually large physogastric queens for a kalotermitid and several species produce large eggs.
- Subjects
MEXICO; MORPHOLOGY; TERMITES; FILES &; rasps; KALOTERMITIDAE
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2011, Vol 148, p41
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.148.1505