Anacanthotermes is an Old World genus of termites in the Hodotermitidae. They are found in deserts and semideserts of North Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, including Baluchistan and southern India.[1] Wings of the alates are glabrous and lack the microstructures like micrasters, microsetae or rods found in more modern Isoptera.[2] In the driest and most arid locations in Africa it is generally replaced by Psammotermes.[3]
| Anacanthotermes | |
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| Anacanthotermes viarum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Infraorder: | Isoptera |
| Family: | Hodotermitidae |
| Genus: | Anacanthotermes Jacobson 1905 |
Species edit
The genus contains some 13 species:[4]
- A. ahngerianus (Jacobson)
- A. baeckmannianus (Vasiljev)
- A. baluchistanicus Akhtar, 1974
- A. iranicus Ravan et al., 1994
- A. macrocephalus (Desneux, 1906)
- A. murgabicus (Vasiljev)
- A. ochraceus (Burmeister)
- A. saudiensis Chhotani, et al., 1982
- A. septentrionalis (Jacobson)
- A. turkestanicus (Jacobson)
- A. ubachi (Navas)
- A. vagans (Hagen, 1858)
- A. viarum (König, 1779)
References edit
- ^ Abe, Takuya; et al. (2000–2002). Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 35–36. ISBN 0-7923-6361-2.
- ^ Roonwal, M. L. (1983). "Evolution and Systematic Significance of Wing Micro-sculpturing in Termites. XIII. Order Isoptera" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India. B49 (5): 359–391. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ Bath, Rebecca (22 January 2009). "Psammotermes". Termites of the World. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ^ "Anacanthotermes Jacobson, 1905". Isoptera. biolib.cz. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
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