Archotermopsidae

Archotermopsidae
Stolotermes ruficeps soldier
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Blattodea
Superfamily:Blattoidea
Family:Archotermopsidae
Engel et al., 2009

Archotermopsidae is a family of termites in the order Blattodea. There are at least five genera in Archotermopsidae.[1][2]

The five extant genera from the family Termopsidae, Archotermopsis, Hodotermopsis, Porotermes, Stolotermes (incertae sedis), and Zootermopsis were moved to a newly created family, Archotermopsidae.[3][4][5] (Zootermopsis had previously been treated as part of the family Hodotermitidae.)[6]

The family Termopsidae now includes only fossil taxa: Asiatermes, Huaxiatermes, and Mesotermopsis (Early Cretaceous of China); Cretatermes carpenteri (Upper Cretaceous of Labrador); Lutetiatermes prisca (Upper Cretaceous amber of France); Paleotermopsis oligocenicus (Upper Oligocene of France); Parotermes insignis (Oligocene of Colorado); and Valditermes (incertae sedis).[3][4][1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Archotermopsidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  2. ↑ "Archotermopsidae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  3. 1 2 Engel, M.S.; Grimaldi, D.A.; Krishna, K. (2009). "Termites (Isoptera): their phylogeny, classification, and rise to ecological dominance". American Museum Novitates. 3650: 1–27.
  4. 1 2 Constantino, Reginaldo (2016). "Termite Database".
  5. ↑ "Tree of Life Web Project, Termopsidae, Dampwood termites". 2003.
  6. ↑ Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.

Further reading

  • Atkinson, T.H.; Koehler, P.G.; Patterson, R.S. (1991). "Catalog and atlas of the cockroaches (Dictyoptera) of North America north of Mexico". Misc. Publ. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 78: 1–86. ISBN 978-9991575872.
  • Beccaloni, George W.; Eggleton, Paul (2011). Zhang, Z.Q., ed. "Order Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa (3148): 199–200. ISSN 1175-5326.
  • Beccaloni, George W.; Eggleton, Paul (2013). Zhang, Z.Q., ed. "Order Blattodea. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa (3703): 46–48. ISSN 1175-5326.
  • Borror, Donald J.; Peterson, Roger Tory; White, Richard E. (1998). A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0395911709.
  • Engel, Michael S.; Krishna, Kumar (2004). "Family-Group Names for Termites (Isoptera)". American Museum Novitates (3432). ISSN 0003-0082.
  • Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology. Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-40366-8.
  • Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
  • Majka, C. (2009). "Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island". ZooKeys. 22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.93.
  • Misof, B.; Liu, S.; Meusemann, K.; Peters, R.S.; et al. (2014). "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution". Science. 346 (763). doi:10.1126/science.1257570.
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