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Diminishing the taxonomic gap in the neotropical soldierless termites: descriptions of four new genera and a new Anoplotermes species (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitinae)
The neotropical Apicotermitinae is a common and widespread clade of mostly soil-feeding soldierless termites. With few exceptions, species of this group were originally assigned to the genus Anoplotermes Müller, 1873. The application of internal worker morphology coupled with genetic sequencing has...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311428/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37397162 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1167.100001 |
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author | Carrijo, Tiago F. Castro, Daniel Wang, Menglin Constantini, Joice P. Bourguignon, Thomas Cancello, Eliana M. Roisin, Yves Scheffrahn, Rudolf H. |
author_facet | Carrijo, Tiago F. Castro, Daniel Wang, Menglin Constantini, Joice P. Bourguignon, Thomas Cancello, Eliana M. Roisin, Yves Scheffrahn, Rudolf H. |
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description | The neotropical Apicotermitinae is a common and widespread clade of mostly soil-feeding soldierless termites. With few exceptions, species of this group were originally assigned to the genus Anoplotermes Müller, 1873. The application of internal worker morphology coupled with genetic sequencing has recently shed light on the true diversity of this subfamily. Herein, Anoplotermessusanae Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, sp. nov. and four new species in four new genera are described: Hirsutitermeskanzakii Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, gen. nov. et sp. nov., Krecekitermesdaironi Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, gen. nov. et sp. nov., Mangolditermescurveileum Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, gen. nov. et sp. nov., and Ourissotermesgiblinorum Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, gen. nov. et sp. nov. Worker descriptions are based mainly on worker gut morphology, including the enteric valve, while imagoes were described based on external characters. A Bayesian phylogenetic tree of New World Apicotermitinae was constructed using the complete mitogenome to infer genera relationships and corroborate the taxonomic decisions. Distribution maps and a dichotomic key to the known Neotropical Apicotermitinae genera are provided. |
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spelling | pubmed-103114282023-07-01 Diminishing the taxonomic gap in the neotropical soldierless termites: descriptions of four new genera and a new Anoplotermes species (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitinae) Carrijo, Tiago F. Castro, Daniel Wang, Menglin Constantini, Joice P. Bourguignon, Thomas Cancello, Eliana M. Roisin, Yves Scheffrahn, Rudolf H. Zookeys Research Article The neotropical Apicotermitinae is a common and widespread clade of mostly soil-feeding soldierless termites. With few exceptions, species of this group were originally assigned to the genus Anoplotermes Müller, 1873. The application of internal worker morphology coupled with genetic sequencing has recently shed light on the true diversity of this subfamily. Herein, Anoplotermessusanae Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, sp. nov. and four new species in four new genera are described: Hirsutitermeskanzakii Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, gen. nov. et sp. nov., Krecekitermesdaironi Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, gen. nov. et sp. nov., Mangolditermescurveileum Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, gen. nov. et sp. nov., and Ourissotermesgiblinorum Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, gen. nov. et sp. nov. Worker descriptions are based mainly on worker gut morphology, including the enteric valve, while imagoes were described based on external characters. A Bayesian phylogenetic tree of New World Apicotermitinae was constructed using the complete mitogenome to infer genera relationships and corroborate the taxonomic decisions. Distribution maps and a dichotomic key to the known Neotropical Apicotermitinae genera are provided. Pensoft Publishers 2023-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10311428/ /pubmed/37397162 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1167.100001 Text en Tiago F. Carrijo, Daniel Castro, Menglin Wang, Joice P. Constantini, Thomas Bourguignon, Eliana M. Cancello, Yves Roisin, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Carrijo, Tiago F. Castro, Daniel Wang, Menglin Constantini, Joice P. Bourguignon, Thomas Cancello, Eliana M. Roisin, Yves Scheffrahn, Rudolf H. Diminishing the taxonomic gap in the neotropical soldierless termites: descriptions of four new genera and a new Anoplotermes species (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitinae) |
title | Diminishing the taxonomic gap in the neotropical soldierless termites: descriptions of four new genera and a new Anoplotermes species (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitinae) |
title_full | Diminishing the taxonomic gap in the neotropical soldierless termites: descriptions of four new genera and a new Anoplotermes species (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitinae) |
title_fullStr | Diminishing the taxonomic gap in the neotropical soldierless termites: descriptions of four new genera and a new Anoplotermes species (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitinae) |
title_full_unstemmed | Diminishing the taxonomic gap in the neotropical soldierless termites: descriptions of four new genera and a new Anoplotermes species (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitinae) |
title_short | Diminishing the taxonomic gap in the neotropical soldierless termites: descriptions of four new genera and a new Anoplotermes species (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitinae) |
title_sort | diminishing the taxonomic gap in the neotropical soldierless termites: descriptions of four new genera and a new anoplotermes species (isoptera, termitidae, apicotermitinae) |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311428/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37397162 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1167.100001 |
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