Termitaphididae, Myers, 1924

Engel, Michael, 2009, A new termite bug in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hemiptera, Termitaphididae), ZooKeys 25 (45), pp. 61-68 : 66-67

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.25.267

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:76B0B285-3584-4584-8E83-2CA543211D06

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3790560

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C6915B-FFFC-FFC4-A8C9-67FFA336FC87

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Plazi

scientific name

Termitaphididae
status

 

Key to adult females of Termitaphididae View in CoL View at ENA

The following key is updated and modified from the one provided by Usinger (1942).

1. Body egg-shaped, surrounded by a strongly incurved and upcurved, dorsolateral, segmentally divided lamina, the edges of which are further divided into distinct, often quite distantly separated lobules, each with a long, fine almost smooth flagellum [ Colombia; host: Amitermes foreli Wasmann ( Termitidae : Termitinae )] ........................ Termitaphis circumvallata Wasmann

– Entire body strongly flattened above and below and surrounded by a flat, lateral, segmentally divided lamina, the margin of which is crenulate, forming short, non-separated lobules, each provided with a short, circular, clavate, or lanceolate flabellum with serrate edges [Tropicopolitan; Genus Termitaradus Myers View in CoL ; hosts, where known: Rhinotermitidae ] ........................................... 2

2. Dorsal integument imbricate and granular, with scattered globular nodulelike setae; without raised pattern of carinae ................................................ 3

– Dorsal integument imbricate with network of raised, thick carinae forming distinctive network, such carinae not extending onto laminae (Fig. 1) [Dominican amber; host: unknown] ...................................... T. mitnicki sp. n.

3. Flabella short and rounded, at most scarcely more than twice as long as broad ......................................................................................................... 4

– Flabella elongate, much more than twice as long as broad.......................... 8

4. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two or three lobules; anterior abdominal segments with 7–10 lobules on each side; size small (2–3.5 mm in length) ......... 5

– Eighth abdominal lobes each with four lobules; anterior abdominal segments with at least 12 lobules on each side; size large, over 7 mm in total length [Mexican amber; host: unknown] .................... T. protera Poinar & Doyen

5. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two lobules; anterior abdominal segments normally with seven or more lobules on each side ...................................... 6

– Eighth abdominal lobes each with three lobules on each side ..................... 7

6. Flabella rounded; anterior abdominal segments with not more than seven lobules on each side [ México; host: Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen) (Heterotermitinae) ].................................................................. T. mexicana (Silvestri)

– Flabella short, clavate; anterior abdominal segments with eight or more lobules on each side [ India; host: Coptotermes heimi (Wasmann) (Coptotermitinae) ] ..................................................................... T. annandalei (Silvestri)

7. Flabella of second cephalic lobe half the size of other head and body flabella, but projecting conspicuously, ovate in form [ Guyana; hosts: Heterotermes crinitus (Emerson) & H. tenuis (Hagen) (Heterotermitinae) ] ....................... ................................................................................ T. guianae (Morrison)

– Flabella of second cephalic lobe much smaller, minute, scarcely surpassing margins, perfectly circular in form [ Jamaica; host: Heterotermes convexinotatus (Snyder) (Heterotermitinae) ] ................................ T. jamaicensis Myers

8. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two or three lobules.............................. 9

– Eighth abdominal lobes each with four lobules [Dominican amber; putative host: Mastotermes electrodominicana Krishna & Grimaldi (Mastotermitidae) ].......................................... T. avitinquilinus Grimaldi & Engel

9. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two lobules......................................... 10

– Eighth abdominal lobes each with three lobules....................................... 11

10. Flabella long, narrow, clavate, with straight sides and squarely truncate tips, not echinate; anterior abdominal lobes each with eight or more lobules [ Australia; host: Coptotermes acinaciformis (Froggatt) (Coptotermitinae) ] ............ .......................................................................... T. australiensis (Mjöberg)

– Flabella subcylindrical, rounded at apices or at most very obtusely pointed, echinate; anterior abdominal lobes each with seven lobules [Africa; host: Schedorhinotermes putorius (Sjöstedt) (Heterotermitinae) View in CoL ] ........................... ................................................................................. T. subafra (Silvestri)

11. Flabella lanceolate, very acute at apices [ Panamá; hosts: Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen) & H. convexinotatus (Snyder) (Heterotermitinae) ] ........................ ................................................................................ T. panamensis Myers

– Flabella moderately clavate, rounded at apices [ Trinidad & Tobago; host: Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen) (Heterotermitinae) ]...... T. trinidadensis (Morrison)

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