Nomenclature (3)

  • Capritermes distortus Silvestri, 1922: 541-543.

    Syntypes; worker/pseudoworker, soldier, imago/alate; ba9798ac-a836-482d-ae54-aa5548a180b0; deposited at: Instituto di Entomologia Agraria, Portici, Italy (IEA);

  • Pericapritermes vythirii Verma, 1983: 296-298.

    Holotype; soldier; 35063339-cb53-4e18-b141-b421b456ac22; deposited at: Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, West Bengal, India (ZSI);

  • Pericapritermes vythirii Verma, 1983 (subjective synonym of Capritermes distortus Silvestri, 1922) in Chhotani, 1997: 360.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Chhotani, O.B. (1997) The fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Isoptera (Termites): (family Termitidae). Vol. 2. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. 800 pp.
  • Silvestri, F. (1922) Descriptions of some Indo-Malayan species of Capritermes (Termitidae). Records of the Indian Museum, 24(4), 535–546.
  • Verma, S.C. (1983) A new species of the termite genus Pericapritermes Silvestri (Termitidae: Termitinae) from Kerala, India, with distributions and keys to Oriental species of the genus. Indian Journal of Forestry 6, 296–301.

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