Stolotermitidae

Stolotermitidae is a family of termites in the order Blattodea, with two extant genera formerly placed in the family Termopsidae. There are about 14 described species in Stolotermitidae.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Stolotermitidae
Stolotermes ruficeps soldier
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Infraorder:	Isoptera
Parvorder:	Euisoptera
Family:	Stolotermitidae Holmgren, 1910

Genera

GBIF^[1] and the Termite Catalogue^[6] list the following:

• Porotermes Hagen, 1858
• Stolotermes Hagen, 1858
• † Chilgatermes Engel, Pan & Jacobs, 2013

References

1. "Stolotermitidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
2. Engel, Michael S.; Pan, Aaron D.; Jacobs, Bonnie F. (2013). "A Termite from the Late Oligocene of Northern Ethiopia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 58 (2). doi:10.4202/app.2011.0198. hdl:1808/14420.
3. 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. doi:10.1206/651.1. hdl:2246/5969. ISSN 0003-0082. S2CID 56166416.
4. Engel, Michael S. (2011). "Family-Group Names for Termites (Isoptera), redux". ZooKeys (148): 171–184. Bibcode:2011ZooK..148..171E. doi:10.3897/zookeys.148.1682. PMC 3264418. PMID 22287896.
5. Beccaloni, George W.; Eggleton, Paul (2013). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Blattodea. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa. 3148. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1.
6. Termite Catalogue (retrieved 22 July 2019)

Further reading

• Krishna, Kumar; Grimaldi, David A.; Krishna, Valerie; Engel, Michael S. (2013). "Treatise on the Isoptera of the world". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (377). hdl:2246/6430.

External links

Data related to Stolotermitidae at Wikispecies