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Serritermitidae is a family of termites belonging to the infraorder Isoptera in the order Blattodea.[2] The family includes only a few species, which live in South America.
Serritermitidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Blattodea |
Infraorder: | Isoptera |
Parvorder: | Euisoptera |
Nanorder: | Neoisoptera |
Family: | Serritermitidae Holmgren, 1910[1] |
Appearance
editThese termites are much like the family Rhinotermitidae, to which they are related. The soldiers' jaws are sharply toothed on the inner side. At all stages, the mandible is strikingly sharp. The flying stages have fore wings with only one longitudinal vein, slightly ahead of the center of the wing. From this it affects numerous oblique veins to the wing trailing edge.
Habits
editThey are located in or on the ground. Their mode of life resembles the family Rhinotermitidae. Serritermes serrifer lives in the walls of the tufts of termites in the genus Cornitermes (Termitidae).
Prevalence
editS. serresi is known from the states of Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso, Brazil. The two Glossotermes species are known only from the Amazon region of Brazil.
References
edit- ^ Emerson, A.E. & K. Krishna. 1975
- ^ Krishna, K.; Grimaldi, D.A.; Krishna, V.; Engel, M.S. (2013). "Treatise on the Isoptera of the world" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 1. 377 (7): 1–200. doi:10.1206/377.1. S2CID 87276148.