Three new species of Rugitermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from Peru and Bolivia

The soldier of Rugitermes aridussp. nov. is described from a xeric, termite-depauperate region of central Peru. Rugitermes rufussp. nov. and R. volcanensissp. nov. are described from soldiers and dealated imagos collected in a mesic forest of Amboró National Park in western Bolivia. The imago of R....

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Autores principales: Scheffrahn, Rudolf H., Carrijo, Tiago F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7728727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354133
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1000.59219
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description The soldier of Rugitermes aridussp. nov. is described from a xeric, termite-depauperate region of central Peru. Rugitermes rufussp. nov. and R. volcanensissp. nov. are described from soldiers and dealated imagos collected in a mesic forest of Amboró National Park in western Bolivia. The imago of R. rufus is unique among all described Rugitermes species in that the head capsule is reddish orange and the pronotum is brown. The imago head and pronotum are both brown in R. volcanensis. A phylogenetic and GMYC barcode analyses were performed with the COI gene. These analyses confirmed the three new species and revealed a high undescribed diversity of Rugitermes in the New World.
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spelling pubmed-77287272020-12-21 Three new species of Rugitermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from Peru and Bolivia Scheffrahn, Rudolf H. Carrijo, Tiago F. Zookeys Research Article The soldier of Rugitermes aridussp. nov. is described from a xeric, termite-depauperate region of central Peru. Rugitermes rufussp. nov. and R. volcanensissp. nov. are described from soldiers and dealated imagos collected in a mesic forest of Amboró National Park in western Bolivia. The imago of R. rufus is unique among all described Rugitermes species in that the head capsule is reddish orange and the pronotum is brown. The imago head and pronotum are both brown in R. volcanensis. A phylogenetic and GMYC barcode analyses were performed with the COI gene. These analyses confirmed the three new species and revealed a high undescribed diversity of Rugitermes in the New World. Pensoft Publishers 2020-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7728727/ /pubmed/33354133 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1000.59219 Text en Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Tiago F. Carrijo 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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Three new species of Rugitermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from Peru and Bolivia
title Three new species of Rugitermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from Peru and Bolivia
title_full Three new species of Rugitermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from Peru and Bolivia
title_fullStr Three new species of Rugitermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from Peru and Bolivia
title_full_unstemmed Three new species of Rugitermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from Peru and Bolivia
title_short Three new species of Rugitermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from Peru and Bolivia
title_sort three new species of rugitermes (isoptera, kalotermitidae) from peru and bolivia
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7728727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354133
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1000.59219
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