Published April 4, 2018
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Echinotermes biriba, a new genus and species of soldierless termite from the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon (Termitidae, Apicotermitinae)
Authors/Creators
- 1. Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI, Leticia, Colombia
- 2. University of Florida, Davie, United States of America
- 3. Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
Description
A new Apicotermitinae genus and species Echinotermes biriba is described from workers collected on the Andean-Amazon Piedmont in Colombia and Peru. The enteric valve armature of Echinotermes biriba Castro & Scheffrahn, gen. et sp. n. is a remarkably diagnostic character. A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis using the COI gene and including all other Neotropical Apicotermitinae genera, supports the new genus as a distinct terminal.