A new termite species of the genus Dihoplotermes Araújo (Blattaria, Isoptera, Termitidae) from the Brazilian Amazonian rainforest

• Autor(a) principal: AZEVEDO,Renato Almeida de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: DAMBROS,Cristian de Sales, MORAIS,José Wellington de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Acta Amazonica
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672019000100017
• topic: gizzard; soil fauna; taxonomy; termite; Termitinae

ABSTRACT Dihoplotermes, a previously monotypic genus, is now composed of two species. Dihoplotermes taurus sp. nov., a new Termitinae termite species, is illustrated and described based on morphological characters from soldiers, workers, and imago. The new species is distinguished from Dihoplotermes inusitatus Araujo by having a spine-like protuberance with blunt apex on the postmentum, the presence of a spine on the gizzard and the absence of dimorphic soldiers. Furthermore, the internal morphological characteristics of a Dihoplotermes worker are described for the first time. Both internal and external morphological characters were used to improve the characterization of the species.