Type

Termes Linnaeus, 1758 type genus of Termitidae Latreille, 1802

Nomenclature (5)

  • Termitidae Latreille, 1802: 293.

    type genus Termes Linnaeus, 1758

  • Termitidae Latreille, 1802 in Packard, 1869: 586-588.
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  • Metatermitidae Holmgren, 1910 (synonym of Termitidae Latreille, 1802) in Emerson, 1971: 297.
  • Termitidae Latreille, 1802 (classified as Geoisoptera Engel, Hellemans & Bourguignon, 2024) 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: 6. Classification

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Emerson, A.E. (1971) Tertiary fossil species of the Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera), phylogeny of genera, and reciprocal phylogeny of associated Flagellata (Protozoa) and the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 146, 243–303.
  • 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
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  • Holmgren, N.F. (1910b) Das System der Termiten. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 35(9-10), 284–286.
  • Latreille, P.A. (1802) Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés des insectes. Vol. 3. F. Dufart, Paris. 468 pp. [in French]
  • Packard, A.S., Jr. (1869) Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops; for the use of colleges, farm schools, and agriculturists. Naturalist's Book Agency, Salem, 531–536 pp. [vii + 702 pp. + 10 pls.]

Descendants and synonyms

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
family1012
subfamily1801230
tribe0022
genus2604106370
subgenus120214
species21195515403714
subspecies540105159