Glyptotermes
Sign in to saveGlyptotermes is a genus of termite in the family Kalotermitidae. With 127 species worldwide as of 2013, is the family's most speciose genus, and the second most speciose in the New World after Cryptotermes.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 84
- Family
- Kalotermitidae
- Collections
- CEDESU-UAC
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Kalotermitidae
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- taxon name
- Glyptotermes
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Froggatt, 1897
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Glyptotermes is a genus of termite in the family Kalotermitidae. With 127 species worldwide as of 2013, is the family's most speciose genus, and the second most speciose in the New World after Cryptotermes.
Entomologist Rudolf H. Scheffrahn argued in 2018 that the paucity of Glyptotermes records from throughout much of the Caribbean Basin and South America was caused by a field sampling bias toward non-kalotermitids. The first records of this genus from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, and much of the Lesser Antilles were provided by Scheffrahn in 2019.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glyptotermes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.