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Rudolf H Scheffrahn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • checklist of nigerian termites blattodea isoptera an update
    African Entomology, 2019
    Co-Authors: Ebenezer O Onagbola, Rudolf H Scheffrahn
    Abstract:

    Checklists of species of organisms from defined localities have aided scientists who seek to establish new taxon records therein. This work was carried out to update information on the Checklists of Nigerian Termites published about four decades ago and to reconcile information on richness and diversity of Nigerian termites. Taxonomy-related articles published on Nigerian termites were collated, reviewed and compared with the information contained in the world's most comprehensive termite reference by Krishna et al. (2013) to bring this update forth. Currently, Nigerian termites have increased from the previously reported 120 species in 1980 to 147 species in 66 genera from three taxonomic families – Kalotermitidae, Rhinotermitidae and Termitidae.

  • Expanded New World Distributions of Genera in the Termite Family Kalotermitidae
    Sociobiology, 2019
    Co-Authors: Rudolf H Scheffrahn
    Abstract:

    The New World Kalotermitidae constitute about one-fourth of all termite species in this region. The geographic distributions of all fifteen kalotermitid genera are updated based on records in the University of Florida Termite Collection and in the literature.  Range-appropriate exotic records of four pest species are also given.  New distribution records are presented on maps, and representative soldier photographs are provided for each genus.

  • a new cryptotermes blattodea isoptera Kalotermitidae from honduras and known distribution of new world cryptotermes species
    Florida Entomologist, 2018
    Co-Authors: Rudolf H Scheffrahn
    Abstract:

    Cryptotermes garifunae sp. nov. (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) is described from a single colony sample collected on the coast of Honduras. This species represents the twenty-second Cryptotermes species known from the Caribbean Basin and West Indies. The C. garifunae soldier and imago are the smallest of the New World Cryptotermes . Distribution maps, constructed from 1,452 new records, are given for all 31 species of New World Cryptotermes . Resumen Se describe Cryptotermes garifunae sp. nov. (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) a partir de una muestra de una sola colonia recolectada en la costa de Honduras. Esta especie representa la vigesima segunda especie de Cryptotermes conocida de la cuenca del Caribe y las Antillas. El soldado y el imago de C. garifunae son los mas pequenos de las especies de Cryptotermes conocidas en el Nuevo Mundo. Se provee mapas de distribucion, construidos a partir de 1, 452 nuevos registros, para las 31 especies de Cryptotermes en el Nuevo Mundo. View this article in BioOne

  • Relative occurrence of the family Kalotermitidae (Isoptera) under different termite sampling methods
    Sociobiology, 2018
    Co-Authors: Rudolf H Scheffrahn, James A. Chase, John R. Mangold, Henry H Hochmair
    Abstract:

    The termite family Kalotermitidae constitutes a wood-nesting termite family that accounts for about 15% of all extant termite species. In recent decades, field studies have been carried out to assess termite diversity in various wooded habitats and geographic locations. Three sampling methods have been favored expert, transect, and alate light-trap surveys. Expert collecting is not spatially quantifiable but relies on field personnel to recognize and sample termite niches. The transect method aims to standardize and quantify termite abundance and diversity. Light trapping is a passive method for sampling nocturnal alate flights. We compared our expert survey results and results of published sampling methods for their proportional yields of kalotermitid versus non-kalotermitid encounters. Using an odds ratio statistic, we found that worldwide, there is about a 50.6-fold greater likelihood of encountering a kalotermitid sample versus a non-kalotermitid using the expert survey method and a 15.3-fold greater likelihood using alate trapping than using the transect method. There is about a 3.3 -fold greater likelihood of collecting a kalotermitid specimen versus a non-kalotermitid sample using the expert survey method than using the alate trap method. Transect studies in which only termite species diversity was reported gave similar low Kalotermitidae yields. We propose that multiple biases in sampling methodology include tools, time constraints, habitat type, geographical location, topographical conditions, and human traits account for the divergent outcomes in sampling the abundance and diversity of Kalotermitidae compared to other termite families.

  • New termite species and newly recorded genus for Australia: Marginitermes absitus (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae)
    Australian Journal of Entomology, 2013
    Co-Authors: Rudolf H Scheffrahn, Anthony C Postle
    Abstract:

    Marginitermes absitus n. sp., discovered at Cape York and Cape Arnhem in northern Australia, is described from the imago and soldier castes. This termite species is larger than both of the known congeners, M. hubbardi and M. cactiphagus, from the south-western Nearctic and Central America, respectively. The geographical range and isolation of M. absitus represents one of the most disjunct and isolated distributions for any termite genus worldwide. Based on fossil records and tectonic history, the Australian Kalotermitidae, including M. absitus, arrived on the continent by transoceanic rafting during the Tertiary.

Barbara L Thorne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Termites of the British Virgin Islands
    Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1997
    Co-Authors: Michael I Haverty, Lori J. Nelson, Margaret S. Collins, Barbara L Thorne
    Abstract:

    A survey of the termites (Isoptera) of 17 islands of the British Virgin Island (BVI) complex yielded eight taxa belonging to three families. The Kalotermitidae include Neotermes mona (Banks), Cryptotermes brevis (Walker), Procryptotermes corniceps (Snyder), and an undetermined species of Incisitermes , likely Incisitermes nr snyderi (Light) or I. incisus (Silvestri). The only rhinotermitid collected is an undetermined species of Heterotermes (Froggatt). Parvitermes wolcotti (Snyder), Nasutitermes costalis (Holmgren), and N. acajutlae (Holmgren) comprise the Termitidae. Cuticular hydrocarbon mixtures were characterized for each of the taxa. Blends of abundant hydrocarbons are species-specific and can be used to identify a given taxon without the diagnostic castes, soldiers, or imagoes, although the species of Incisitermes were not separable on the basis of cuticular hydrocarbons.

  • Phylogeny of the Dictyoptera
    Systematic Entomology, 1992
    Co-Authors: Barbara L Thorne, James M. Carpenter
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    Relationships among six key dictyopteran taxa (Mantodea; Blat- todea (excluding Cryptocercidae); Cryptocercidae; Mastotermes darwiniensis, Termopsidae and Kalotermitidae (Isoptera)) are analysed based on seventy morphological, developmental and behavioural characters. The fossil record and the 'living fossil' genera Cryptocercus, Mastotermes and Archotermopsisare discussed in detail. Exact analysis of the character state matrix by implicit enu- meration (Hennig86) resulted in one cladogram, strongly supporting Blattodea + Cryptocercidae as a sister group to Mantodea, with the Isoptera as a sister group to that complex. Arrangements within the termites are equivocal, with Termopsidae and Mastotermes darwiniensis possible as the relatively most pri- mitive element of Isoptera.

Andreas Brune - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Strict cospeciation of devescovinid flagellates and Bacteroidales ectosymbionts in the gut of dry‐wood termites (Kalotermitidae)
    Environmental microbiology, 2009
    Co-Authors: Mahesh Desai, Jürgen F. H. Strassert, Katja Meuser, Horst Hertel, Wakako Ikeda-ohtsubo, Renate Radek, Andreas Brune
    Abstract:

    The surface of many termite gut flagellates is colonized with a dense layer of bacteria, yet little is known about the evolutionary relationships of such ectosymbionts and their hosts. Here we investigated the molecular phylogenies of devescovinid flagellates (Devescovina spp.) and their symbionts from a wide range of dry-wood termites (Kalotermitidae). From species-pure flagellate suspensions isolated with micropipettes, we obtained SSU rRNA gene sequences of symbionts and host. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the Devescovina spp. present in many species of Kalotermitidae form a monophyletic group, which includes also the unique devescovinid flagellate Caduceia versatilis. All members of this group were consistently associated with a distinct lineage of Bacteroidales, whose location on the cell surface was confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridization. The well-supported congruence of the phylogenies of devescovinids and their ectosymbionts documents a strict cospeciation. In contrast, the endosymbionts of the same flagellates ('Endomicrobia') were clearly polyphyletic and must have been acquired independently by horizontal transfer from other flagellate lineages. Also the Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of Oxymonas flagellates present in several Kalotermitidae belonged to several distantly related lines of descent, underscoring the general perception that the evolutionary history of flagellate-bacteria symbioses in the termite gut is complex.

  • strict cospeciation of devescovinid flagellates and bacteroidales ectosymbionts in the gut of dry wood termites Kalotermitidae
    Environmental Microbiology, 2009
    Co-Authors: Mahesh Desai, Jürgen F. H. Strassert, Katja Meuser, Horst Hertel, Renate Radek, Wakako Ikedaohtsubo, Andreas Brune
    Abstract:

    The surface of many termite gut flagellates is colonized with a dense layer of bacteria, yet little is known about the evolutionary relationships of such ectosymbionts and their hosts. Here we investigated the molecular phylogenies of devescovinid flagellates (Devescovina spp.) and their symbionts from a wide range of dry-wood termites (Kalotermitidae). From species-pure flagellate suspensions isolated with micropipettes, we obtained SSU rRNA gene sequences of symbionts and host. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the Devescovina spp. present in many species of Kalotermitidae form a monophyletic group, which includes also the unique devescovinid flagellate Caduceia versatilis. All members of this group were consistently associated with a distinct lineage of Bacteroidales, whose location on the cell surface was confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridization. The well-supported congruence of the phylogenies of devescovinids and their ectosymbionts documents a strict cospeciation. In contrast, the endosymbionts of the same flagellates ('Endomicrobia') were clearly polyphyletic and must have been acquired independently by horizontal transfer from other flagellate lineages. Also the Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of Oxymonas flagellates present in several Kalotermitidae belonged to several distantly related lines of descent, underscoring the general perception that the evolutionary history of flagellate-bacteria symbioses in the termite gut is complex.

Michael I Haverty - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Termites of the British Virgin Islands
    Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1997
    Co-Authors: Michael I Haverty, Lori J. Nelson, Margaret S. Collins, Barbara L Thorne
    Abstract:

    A survey of the termites (Isoptera) of 17 islands of the British Virgin Island (BVI) complex yielded eight taxa belonging to three families. The Kalotermitidae include Neotermes mona (Banks), Cryptotermes brevis (Walker), Procryptotermes corniceps (Snyder), and an undetermined species of Incisitermes , likely Incisitermes nr snyderi (Light) or I. incisus (Silvestri). The only rhinotermitid collected is an undetermined species of Heterotermes (Froggatt). Parvitermes wolcotti (Snyder), Nasutitermes costalis (Holmgren), and N. acajutlae (Holmgren) comprise the Termitidae. Cuticular hydrocarbon mixtures were characterized for each of the taxa. Blends of abundant hydrocarbons are species-specific and can be used to identify a given taxon without the diagnostic castes, soldiers, or imagoes, although the species of Incisitermes were not separable on the basis of cuticular hydrocarbons.

  • 2005. Identification of termite species by the hydrocarbons in their feces
    1996
    Co-Authors: Michael I Haverty, Lori J. Nelson, Joseph R. Woodrow, Kenneth J. Grace
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    Abstract—Blends of abundant cuticular hydrocarbons are species-specific for termites (Isoptera) and can be used to identify a given taxon without the diagnostic castes, soldiers or adults. We demonstrate that hydrocarbon extracts of termite fecal pellets from damaged wood can also be characterized and used to identify termites responsible for damage, even though termites are no longer present or easily recovered. In structures infested by drywood termites, it is common to find fecal pellets, but difficult to extract termites from the finished wood in service. Nine species belonging to two families (Kalotermitidae and Termopsidae) were examined to compare the hydrocar-bon composition of termites and their fecal pellets. Diversity was extensive: at least one half of the amount of the hydrocarbons from Neotermes connexus, Incisitermes immigrans, Cryptotermes brevis, Cryptotermes cynocephalus, Procryptotermes corniceps, and Zootermopsis nevadensis nuttingi was olefins. Incisitermes minor and Pterotermes occidentis incorporated only small amounts of olefins in cuticular hydrocarbons; Marginitermes hubbardi had no detectable olefins. Hydrocarbons extracted from fecal pellets were qualitatively and quantitatively similar to cuticular extracts and can be used to determine the termite species responsible without the termites present. Key WordsVChemotaxonomy, cuticular hydrocarbons, dampwood termites, drywood termites, fecal pellets, frass, Kalotermitidae, Isoptera, specie

Christine A. Nalepa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Phylogeny of the Dictyoptera Re-examined (Insecta)
    2003
    Co-Authors: Lewis L. Deitz, Christine A. Nalepa, Klaus-dieter Klass
    Abstract:

    This work presents a critical evaluation of the currently available morphological and biological data base relevant to reconstructing phylogeny in Dictyoptera. In 1992, B.L. Thorne and J.M. Carpenter (Systematic Entomology 17: 253-268) pub- lished a widely acknowledged phylogenetic analysis of Dictyoptera that gave the relationships (Mantodea + (*Blattaria + Cryptocercidae)) + ((Mastotermitidae + Kalotermitidae) + Termopsidae) (*Blattaria = Blattaria excluding Cryptocercidae). The present study uses that work as a starting point to demonstrate the importance of a thorough treatment of characters in phyloge- netic reconstruction. Repeating the analysis of Thorne and Carpenter without disputable polarity assumptions produced Mantodea + ((*Blattaria + Cryptocercidae) + ((Mastotermitidae + Kalotermitidae) + Termopsidae)). Analyses after a careful revision of the characters as well as analyses including seven additional characters produced Mantodea + (*Blattaria + (Cryptocercidae + (Mastotermitidae + (Kalotermitidae + Termopsidae)))). The latter result, indicating paraphyly of Blattaria with respect to Isoptera, is in strong contrast to the findings of Thorne and Carpenter, but concurs with some recent morphological and molecular studies. It includes a single acquisition of both symbiotic fat body Blattabacterium and hindgut flagellates within Dictyoptera, and the homology of sociality in Cryptocercidae and Isoptera.

  • 155 survey of the termites (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae, Rhinotermitidae, Termitidae) of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
    Sociobiology, 2002
    Co-Authors: Susan C. Jones, Christine A. Nalepa
    Abstract:

    A survey of the island of St. John revealed the presence of Incisitermes nr. incisus, Procryptotermes nr. corniceps and Neotermes mona (Kalotermitidae); one or more undetermined species of Heterotermes (Rhinotermitidae); and Parvitermes wolcotti and Nasutitermes acajutlae (Termitidae). The most commonly noted termites included a drywood termite, I. nr. incisus; the subterranean termite genus Heterotermes; and an arboreal nesting nasutiform termite, N. acajutlae. These three species appeared to be more cosmopolitan, being found in both the moist forest and dry forest areas of St. John. Termite associations with a number of host plants are reported. A total of six taxa in three families now are known from St. John, whereas only three species previously have been noted.

  • Distribution of Kalotermes approximatus (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) in North Carolina.
    The Florida Entomologist, 1998
    Co-Authors: Christine A. Nalepa
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