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Odontotermes formosanus (Shiraki, 1909)

Nomenclature (9)

  • Termes formosanus Shiraki, 1909: 234-237.

    Syntypes; imago/alate; b651704a-e4ca-403a-adea-547755d72781; deposited at: Unknown (Unknown);

  • Odontotermes formosanus Holmgren, 1912d: 127-129.

    Syntypes; imago/alate, soldier, worker/pseudoworker; 624ff809-d9f1-400c-9512-440ff1dea8c8; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria (NHMW);

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  • Odontotermes qianyangensis Lin, 1981 (subjective synonym of Termes formosanus Shiraki, 1909) in Huang, Zhu, Ping, He, Li & Gao, 2000: 566.
  • Odontotermes formosanus Holmgren, 1912 (homonym of Termes formosanus Shiraki, 1909) in Krishna, Grimaldi, Krishna & Engel, 2013: 1179.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Holmgren, N.F. (1912d) Die Termiten Japans. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 8(1), 107–136.
  • Holmgren, N.F. (1913c) Termitenstudien. 4. Versuch einer systematischen Monographie der Termiten der orientalischen Region. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 50(2), 1–276. [in German]
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  • Huang, F.-S., Zhu, S.-M., Ping, X.-M., He, X.-S., Li, G.-X. & Gao, D.-R. (2000) Fauna Sinica. Vol. 17, Insecta: Isoptera. Science Press, Beijing. xxiv + 961 pp. [in Chinese]
  • Krishna, K., Grimaldi, D.A., Krishna, V. & Engel, M.S. (2013) Treatise on the Isoptera of the World: 4. TERMITIDAE (PART ONE). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 377, 977–1498.
  • Light, S.F. (1924) The termites (white ants) of China, with descriptions of six new species. China Journal of Science and Arts 2, 50–60, 140–142, 253–265, 354–358.
  • Lin, S.-X. (1981) Descriptions of two new species of Odontotermes from China (Isoptera: Termitidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 6, 425–427. [in Chinese]
  • Oshima, M. (1913a) Notes on the termites of Japan, with description of one new species. Philippine Journal of Science, Section D, General Biology, Ethnology and Anthropology, 8(4), 271–281.
  • Oshima, M. (1913b) Two new species of termites from Singapore. Philippine Journal of Science, Section D, General Biology, Ethnology and Anthropology, 8(4), 283–286.
  • Shiraki, T. (1909) On the termites of Japan. Transactions of the Entomological Society of Japan, 2(10), 229–242. [in Japanese]

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Etymology:

From Formosa.