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Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl 1882

  • 1. ) &) Mendel University in Brno, Department of Zoology, Fisheries, Hydrobiology and Apiculture, Zemědělská 1, CZ- 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic; e-mail: bezdek @ mendelu. cz
  • 2. ) &) Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic; e-mail: jiri _ hajek @ nm. cz

Description

Blattodea: Isoptera

Literature sources. FORBES (1903b), HARRIS (1954), SANDS (1992), WRANIK (1998, 1999, 2003), BATELKA (2012a), SCHEFFRAHN & KŘEČEK (2017).

Comments. HARRIS (1954) described two endemic species from Socotra Island: Amitermes socotrensis Harris, 1954 and Procryptotermes dioscurae Harris, 1954. Additional three species identified only to the genus level (Angulitermes sp., Heterotermes sp., Microcerotermes sp.) were mentioned by WRANIK (2003).

Notes

Published as part of Bezděk, Jan & Hájek, Jiří, 2017, Insect biodiversity of the Socotra Archipelago - underlined and counted, pp. 1-39 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57 on page 6, DOI: 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0105, http://zenodo.org/record/5324420

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Brunner von Wattenwyl
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Blattodea
Taxon rank
order
Taxonomic concept label
Blattodea von, 1882 sec. Bezděk & Hájek, 2017

References

  • FORBES H. O. 1903 b: Insecta: Neuroptera. Pseudo-neuroptera. P. 397. In: FORBES H. O. (ed.): The natural history of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri: Being the report upon the results of the conjoint expedition to these islands in 1898 - 9. Special Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, xlvii + 598 pp.
  • HARRIS W. V. 1954: Termites from Socotra (Isoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, Twelfth Series 7: 493 - 496.
  • SANDS W. A. 1992: The termite genus Amitermes in Africa and the Middle East. Bulletin of Natural Resource Institute 51: 1 - 140.
  • WRANIK W. 1998: Faunistic notes on Soqotra Island. Pp. 135 - 198. In: DUMONT H. J. (ed.): Proceedings of the First international symposium on Soqotra Island: Present and future. Volume 1. United Nations Publications, New York, 326 pp.
  • WRANIK W. 1999: Die Tierwelt der Insel Sokotra. Pp. 81 - 181. In: WRANIK W. (ed.): Sokotra. Mensch und Natur. Jemen-Studien, Band 14. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, xxii + 258 pp + 24 pls.
  • WRANIK W. 2003: Fauna of the Socotra Archipelago. Field guide. Universitat Rostock, Rostock, 542 pp.
  • BATELKA J. 2012 a: Socotra Archipelago - a lifeboat in the sea of changes: advancement in Socotran insect biodiversity survey. Pp. 1 - 26. In: HAJEK J. & BEZDEK J. (eds): Insect biodiversity of the Socotra Archipelago. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (Supplementum 2): i - vi + 1 - 557.
  • SCHEFFRAHN R. H. & KRECEK J. 2017: Described from images: The remarkable soldier of Procryptotermes dioscurae Harris (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) from Socotra Island. Zootaxa 4365: 590 - 593.