Termitaphididae Myers 1924
Creators: name: Engel, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Termitaphididae

description: Key to adult females of Termitaphididae The following key is updated and modified from the one provided by Usinger (1942). 1. Body egg-shaped, surrounded by a strongly incurved and upcurved, dorsolateral, segmentally divided lamina, the edges of which are further divided into distinct, often quite distantly separated lobules, each with a long, fine almost smooth flagellum [Colombia; host: <i>Amitermes foreli</i> Wasmann (Termitidae: Termitinae)]........................ <b> <i>Termitaphis circumvallata</i> Wasmann</b> – Entire body strongly flattened above and below and surrounded by a flat, lateral, segmentally divided lamina, the margin of which is crenulate, forming short, non-separated lobules, each provided with a short, circular, clavate, or lanceolate flabellum with serrate edges [Tropicopolitan; Genus <i>Termitaradus</i> Myers; hosts, where known: Rhinotermitidae]........................................... <b>2</b> 2. Dorsal integument imbricate and granular, with scattered globular nodulelike setae; without raised pattern of carinae................................................ <b>3</b> – Dorsal integument imbricate with network of raised, thick carinae forming distinctive network, such carinae not extending onto laminae (Fig. 1) [Dominican amber; host: unknown]...................................... <b> <i>T</i>. <i>mitnicki</i> sp. n.</b> 3. Flabella short and rounded, at most scarcely more than twice as long as broad......................................................................................................... <b>4</b> – Flabella elongate, much more than twice as long as broad.......................... <b>8</b> 4. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two or three lobules; anterior abdominal segments with 7–10 lobules on each side; size small (2–3.5 mm in length)......... <b>5</b> – Eighth abdominal lobes each with four lobules; anterior abdominal segments with at least 12 lobules on each side; size large, over 7 mm in total length [Mexican amber; host: unknown].................... <b> <i>T</i>. <i>protera</i> Poinar &amp; Doyen</b> 5. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two lobules; anterior abdominal segments normally with seven or more lobules on each side...................................... <b>6</b> – Eighth abdominal lobes each with three lobules on each side..................... <b>7</b> 6. Flabella rounded; anterior abdominal segments with not more than seven lobules on each side [México; host: <i>Heterotermes tenuis</i> (Hagen) (Heterotermitinae)].................................................................. <b> <i>T</i>. <i>mexicana</i> (Silvestri)</b> – Flabella short, clavate; anterior abdominal segments with eight or more lobules on each side [India; host: <i>Coptotermes heimi</i> (Wasmann) (Coptotermitinae)]..................................................................... <b> <i>T</i>. <i>annandalei</i> (Silvestri)</b> 7. Flabella of second cephalic lobe half the size of other head and body flabella, but projecting conspicuously, ovate in form [Guyana; hosts: <i>Heterotermes crinitus</i> (Emerson) &amp; <i>H</i>. <i>tenuis</i> (Hagen) (Heterotermitinae)]....................................................................................................... <b> <i>T</i>. <i>guianae</i> (Morrison)</b> – Flabella of second cephalic lobe much smaller, minute, scarcely surpassing margins, perfectly circular in form [Jamaica; host: <i>Heterotermes convexinotatus</i> (Snyder) (Heterotermitinae)]................................ <b> <i>T</i>. <i>jamaicensis</i> Myers</b> 8. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two or three lobules.............................. <b>9</b> – Eighth abdominal lobes each with four lobules [Dominican amber; putative host: <i>Mastotermes electrodominicana</i> Krishna &amp; Grimaldi (Mastotermitidae)].......................................... <b> <i>T</i>. <i>avitinquilinus</i> Grimaldi &amp; Engel</b> 9. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two lobules......................................... <b>10</b> – Eighth abdominal lobes each with three lobules....................................... <b>11</b> 10. Flabella long, narrow, clavate, with straight sides and squarely truncate tips, not echinate; anterior abdominal lobes each with eight or more lobules [Australia; host: <i>Coptotermes acinaciformis</i> (Froggatt) (Coptotermitinae)]...................................................................................... <b> <i>T</i>. <i>australiensis</i> (Mjöberg)</b> – Flabella subcylindrical, rounded at apices or at most very obtusely pointed, echinate; anterior abdominal lobes each with seven lobules [Africa; host: <i>Schedorhinotermes putorius</i> (Sjöstedt) (Heterotermitinae)]............................................................................................................ <b> <i>T</i>. <i>subafra</i> (Silvestri)</b> 11. Flabella lanceolate, very acute at apices [Panamá; hosts: <i>Heterotermes tenuis</i> (Hagen) &amp; <i>H</i>. <i>convexinotatus</i> (Snyder) (Heterotermitinae)]........................................................................................................ <b> <i>T</i>. <i>panamensis</i> Myers</b> – Flabella moderately clavate, rounded at apices [Trinidad &amp; Tobago; host: <i>Heterotermes tenuis</i> (Hagen) (Heterotermitinae)]...... <i>T</i>. <b> <i>trinidadensis</i> (Morrison)</b>
description: Published as part of <i>Engel, Michael, 2009, A new termite bug in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hemiptera, Termitaphididae), pp. 61-68 in ZooKeys 25 (45)</i> on pages 66-67, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.25.267, http://zenodo.org/record/576558
description: {"references": ["Usinger RL (1942) Revision of the Termitaphididae (Hemiptera). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 18 (4): 155 - 159."]}