Type

Amitermes Silvestri, 1901 type genus of Amitermitinae Kemner, 1934

Nomenclature (3)

  • Amitermitinae Kemner, 1934b: 110. (valid in Hellemans, Rocha, Wang, Arias, Aanen, Bagnères, Buček, Carrijo, Chouvenc, Cuezzo, Constantini, Constantino, Dedeine, Deligne, Eggleton, Evans, Hanus, Harrison, Harry, Josens, Jouault, Kalleshwaraswamy, Kaymak, Korb, Lee, Legendre, Li, Lo, Lu, Matsuura, Maekawa, McMahon, Mizumoto, Oliveira, Poulsen, Sillam-Dussès, Su, Tokuda, Vargo, Ware, Šobotník, Scheffrahn, Cancello, Roisin, Engel & Bourguignon, 2024: 8)

    type genus Amitermes Silvestri, 1901

  • Amitermitinae Kemner, 1934 (subjective synonym of Termitinae Latreille, 1802) in Sands, 1972: 3, 35.
  • Amitermitinae Kemner, 1934 in Hellemans, Rocha, Wang, Arias, Aanen, Bagnères, Buček, Carrijo, Chouvenc, Cuezzo, Constantini, Constantino, Dedeine, Deligne, Eggleton, Evans, Hanus, Harrison, Harry, Josens, Jouault, Kalleshwaraswamy, Kaymak, Korb, Lee, Legendre, Li, Lo, Lu, Matsuura, Maekawa, McMahon, Mizumoto, Oliveira, Poulsen, Sillam-Dussès, Su, Tokuda, Vargo, Ware, Šobotník, Scheffrahn, Cancello, Roisin, Engel & Bourguignon, 2024: 8. Removed from Synonymy/Made Valid

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Hellemans, S., Rocha, M.M., Wang, M.-L., Arias, J.R., Aanen, D.K., Bagnères, A.-G., Buček, A., Carrijo, T.F., Chouvenc, T., Cuezzo, C., Constantini, J.P., Constantino, R., Dedeine, F., Deligne, J., Eggleton, P., Evans, T.A., Hanus, R., Harrison, M.C., Harry, M., … Bourguignon, T. (2024) Genomic data provide insights into the classification of extant termites. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6724: 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51028-y
  • Kemner, N.A. (1934b) Systematische und biologische Studien über die Termiten Javas und Celebes. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 13(4), 1–241. [in German]
  • Sands, W.A. (1972) The soldierless termites of Africa (Isoptera: Termitidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 18, 1–244.

Descendants and synonyms

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
subfamily1001
genus140721
species1942123319
subspecies4059