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Total Authors: 3
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Museu Zool, BR-04218970 Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY; v. 54, n. 2, p. 172-179, MAY 2015. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 3 |
| Abstract | |
Soldiers and workers of the Neotropical nasute genus Cortaritermes are easily differentiated from other nasutitermitine genera by the first proctodeal segment of the coiling gut in situ forming a distinct loop visible throughout the abdominal wall on the right side of the abdomen. The study proposes to transfer two species currently in Nasutitermes to Cortaritermes, raising the total number of Cortaritermes species to five: C. silvestrii (Holmgren, 1910) (type species), C. fulviceps (Silvestri, 1901), C. rizzinii (Araujo, 1971), C. intermedius (Banks, 1919) comb. nov. and C. piliceps (Holmgren, 1910) comb. nov. The last two species, C. intermedius and C. piliceps, are herein redescribed, and digital images are provided. The distribution of Cortaritermes is now expanded to northern and north-eastern South America. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/08260-3 - International Union for the Study of Social Insects - IUSSI 2010 |
| Grantee: | Eliana Marques Cancello |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Grants - Meeting - Abroad |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/03767-0 - Phylogeography of the Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen, 1858) species complex (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae) |
| Grantee: | Tiago Fernandes Carrijo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/05610-1 - Integrating taxonomic knowledge to assess the phylogeny of the Subulitermes-group (Isoptera, Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae) from the Neotropical Region |
| Grantee: | Adriana Carolina Cuezzo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |