Rugitermes tinto: A new termite (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from the Andean region of Colombia

The imago and soldier castes of a new Rugitermes Holmgren, 1911 species, R. tintosp. nov. are described. It is the ninth species of Rugitermes from South America and the first record of this genus from Colombia. Unlike its congeners, the soldier of R. tinto has very dark head capsule pigmentation an...

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Autores principales: Scheffrahn, Rudolf H., Florian, Olga Patricia Pinzón
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7458932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32922130
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.963.55843
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description The imago and soldier castes of a new Rugitermes Holmgren, 1911 species, R. tintosp. nov. are described. It is the ninth species of Rugitermes from South America and the first record of this genus from Colombia. Unlike its congeners, the soldier of R. tinto has very dark head capsule pigmentation and acute protuberances projecting from frontolateral ridges.
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spelling pubmed-74589322020-09-11 Rugitermes tinto: A new termite (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from the Andean region of Colombia Scheffrahn, Rudolf H. Florian, Olga Patricia Pinzón Zookeys Research Article The imago and soldier castes of a new Rugitermes Holmgren, 1911 species, R. tintosp. nov. are described. It is the ninth species of Rugitermes from South America and the first record of this genus from Colombia. Unlike its congeners, the soldier of R. tinto has very dark head capsule pigmentation and acute protuberances projecting from frontolateral ridges. Pensoft Publishers 2020-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7458932/ /pubmed/32922130 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.963.55843 Text en Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Olga Patricia Pinzón Florian http://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.
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Rugitermes tinto: A new termite (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from the Andean region of Colombia
title Rugitermes tinto: A new termite (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from the Andean region of Colombia
title_full Rugitermes tinto: A new termite (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from the Andean region of Colombia
title_fullStr Rugitermes tinto: A new termite (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from the Andean region of Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Rugitermes tinto: A new termite (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from the Andean region of Colombia
title_short Rugitermes tinto: A new termite (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from the Andean region of Colombia
title_sort rugitermes tinto: a new termite (isoptera, kalotermitidae) from the andean region of colombia
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7458932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32922130
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.963.55843
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