genus
Microcerotermes Silvestri, 1901
Type
Termes strunckii Sörensen, 1884 type species by original monotypy of Microcerotermes Silvestri, 1901
Nomenclature (3)
- Microcerotermes Silvestri, 1901: 3.
type species by original monotypy Termes strunckii Sörensen, 1884
- Gibbotermes Cachan, 1951: 10.
type species by original designation Cubitermes subinteger Cachan, 1949
- Gibbotermes Cachan, 1951 (subjective synonym of Microcerotermes Silvestri, 1901) in Emerson, 1955: 488.
Nomenclature references (3)
- Cachan, P. (1951) Les termites de Madagascar. Premier supplément. Mémoires de l’Institut Scientifique de Madagascar 5, 1–18.
- Emerson, A.E. (1955) Geographical origins and dispersions of termite genera. Fieldiana: Zoology 37, 465–521.
- Silvestri, F. (1901) Nota preliminare sui Termitidi sud-americani. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 16, 1–8. [in Italian]
Descendants and synonyms
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| species | 148 | 2 | 51 | 201 |
| subspecies | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |