| Stolotermitidae | |
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| Stolotermes ruficeps soldier | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Infraorder: | Isoptera |
| Parvorder: | Euisoptera |
| Family: | Stolotermitidae Holmgren, 1910 |
Stolotermitidae is a family of termites in the order Blattodea, with two extant genera formerly placed in the family Termopsidae. There are about 14 described species in Stolotermitidae.
Genera
GBIF and the Termite Catalogue list the following:
- Porotermes Hagen, 1858
- Stolotermes Hagen, 1858
- † Chilgatermes Engel, Pan & Jacobs, 2013
References
- ^ "Stolotermitidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- Engel, Michael S.; Pan, Aaron D.; Jacobs, Bonnie F. (2013). "A Termite from the Late Oligocene of Northern Ethiopia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 58 (2). doi:10.4202/app.2011.0198. hdl:1808/14420.
- Engel, M. S.; Grimaldi, D. A.; Krishna, K. (2009). "Termites (Isoptera): their phylogeny, classification, and rise to ecological dominance". American Museum Novitates (3650): 1–27. doi:10.1206/651.1. hdl:2246/5969. ISSN 0003-0082. S2CID 56166416.
- Engel, Michael S. (2011). "Family-Group Names for Termites (Isoptera), redux". ZooKeys (148): 171–184. Bibcode:2011ZooK..148..171E. doi:10.3897/zookeys.148.1682. PMC 3264418. PMID 22287896.
- Beccaloni, George W.; Eggleton, Paul (2013). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Blattodea. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa. 3148. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1.
- Termite Catalogue (retrieved 22 July 2019)
Further reading
- Krishna, Kumar; Grimaldi, David A.; Krishna, Valerie; Engel, Michael S. (2013). "Treatise on the Isoptera of the world". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (377). hdl:2246/6430.
External links
Data related to Stolotermitidae at Wikispecies
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Stolotermitidae | |