Protocapritermes Holmgren
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Genus Protocapritermes Holmgren
Protocapritermes Holmgren, 1912: 108.
Type-species, fixed by monotypy: Termes krisiformis Froggatt, 1898.
Diagnosis. Soldiers of the genus Protocapritermes are characterized by their low frontal projection and lack of lateral tubercles (Figs. 5–6). Soldier mandibles moderately long and slender, almost symmetrical. Tibial spurs 3:2:2. Worker left mandible index: 0.8–1.2 (Fig. 8). Worker digestive tract with P3 subdivided into a small posterior section and a larger anterior one (Figs 59–60). Enteric valve weakly armed with short stout spines (Fig. 7). For a detailed description see Miller (1991).
Distribution. The type species of this genus occurs in coastal southeastern Australia (Watson & Abbey 1993: 138). The second species, discussed below, is known from New Guinea and from the Bismarck and Solomon Islands.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Holmgren
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Isoptera
- Family
- Termitidae
- Genus
- Protocapritermes
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Holmgren, N. (1912) Termitenstudien. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 48 (4), 1 - 166.
- Froggatt, W. W. (1898) Australian Termitidae. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 22, 721 - 758.
- Miller, L. R. (1991) A revision of the Termes - Capritermes branch of the Termitinae in Australia (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 4, 1147 - 1282.
- Watson, J. A. L .. & Abbey, H. M. (1993) Atlas of Australian Termites. CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra, 155 pp.