Two new species of an Indian endemic genus <i>Krishnacapritermes</i> Chhotani (Isoptera: Termitidae) from the Kerala part of the Western Ghats, India

Amina, Poovoli; Rajmohana, K.; Dinesh, K. P.; Asha, G.; Sinu, Palatty Allesh; Mathew, Jobin

doi:10.1080/00305316.2019.1683091

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“…Two genera of subfamily Nasutitermitinae, viz., Ampoulitermes and Emersonitermes with one species each are endemic to southern India. The latest additions of species to the regional termite diversity are Krishnacapritermes dineshan Amina & Rajmohana, 2020 and Krishnacapritermes manikandan Amina & Rajmohana, 2020 are endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India (Amina et al 2020). Families such as Hodotermitidae and Stylotermitidae have only one representative species in the region; Anacanthotermes viarum and Stylotermes fletcheri, respectively.…”

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Termites (Blattodea: Isoptera) of southern India: current knowledge on distribution and systematic checklist

Ranjith¹,

Kalleshwaraswamy²

2021

J. Threat. Taxa

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A checklist of termites (Blattodea: Isoptera) of southern India with their distribution is presented in this paper. In total, 132 species from five families are listed, of which Termitidae Latreille, 1802 is the dominant family comprising 101 species from 27 genera and four subfamilies. The recent additions of species to the regional termite diversity are Krishnacapritermes dineshan Amina & Rajmohana, 2020, K. manikandan Amina & Rajmohana, 2020, and Pseudocapritermes kunjepu Mathew, 2020. Out of 132 species recorded from southern India, 60 species and five genera are endemic to the region, and the subfamily Termitinae Latreille, 1802 accounts for maximum endemism.

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Termites (Blattodea: Isoptera) of southern India: current knowledge on distribution and systematic checklist

Ranjith¹,

Kalleshwaraswamy²

2021

J. Threat. Taxa

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“…In the present study, the importance of mandibular features in soldiers was investigated in determining the taxonomy of termite species. The soldier caste is the main caste on which consistent amount of termite taxonomic work has been focused (Seid et al 2008;Kuan et al 2020;Amina et al 2020). The MP tree based on mandible features exhibited certain clusters which were consistent with the DNA based tree, as it can be observed that the species of Microcerotermes, Odontotermes, and Coptotermes are falling in their respective clades with significant bootstrap values (Figure 2); earlier investigators have also emphasized on the importance of mandible features in the determination of taxonomic position of different termite species (Donovan et al 2000;Carrijo et al 2020).…”

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Identification and phylogenetic analysis of various termite species distributed across southern Haryana, India

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Termites are highly abundant and vital insects that directly and indirectly influence local soils. The present study investigated the morphological and molecular phylogenetics of termite species collected from study fields in southern Haryana, India, from 2020 to 2021. Samples were subjected to integrated systematic analyses, taking into account the mandible features of soldiers for morphological systematics and 16S rRNA gene-based phylogeny for molecular systematics. Based on the external phenotype and relations to reference sequences in NCBI GenBank, 21 species were identified; these included five species each from Odontotermes and Microcerotermes, four species from Coptotermes, two species each from Microtermes and Eremotermes, and one species each from Amitermes, Angulitermes, and Neotermes. 16S rRNA gene sequences were utilized to construct phylogenetic trees to explore the relatedness among identified species. The results of the different molecular phylogenetic approaches including maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and neighbor-joining revealed nearly identical topological relations between the species and grouping of individuals in relation to their genera. The maximum parsimony tree based on mandible features has been found to be effective in clustering multiple species of a given genus in a clade in at least three termite genera.

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“…Termites are ecosystematically dynamic insects belonging to the order Isoptera, of which 3106 species under 330 genera and 12 families are known (Krishna et al, 2013a;Singla et al, 2013;Singla et al, 2016;Kakkar et al, 2017;Paul et al, 2018;Murthy, 2020;Effowe et al, 2021). Of these, only 300 species are from India under 37 genera and 7 families (Saha et al, 2016;Vidhyashree et al, 2018;Amina et al, 2020). The termites of Haryana state are poorly known-its diversity reported varies, as 11 (Verma, 1989), 19 (Thakur, 1992), 15 (Kumar and Thakur, 2010) or 20 species, ranked under ten genera and three families (Thakur, 2007).…”

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A New Record of Termite <i>Coptotermes emersoni</i> Ahmed

Bhanupriya

Kakkar

Gupta

2022

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The Coptotermes Wasmann (1896), is a highly scattered genus, which is represented by nine species. Coptotermes emersoni Ahmad (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae: Coptotermitinae) is a species first time reported from Southern Haryana, India, with specimens trapped from banyan tree. Morphometric analysis of soldiers like body length, head length without mandibles, head length with mandibles, body pigmentation, antennae segments, tibial spur, tarsal segments, head width, and body width has been made. These reveals that C. emersoni has crenulations present on each of the mandibles, right mandible with two crenulation and left mandible with five crenulations which make it unique among other species of the genus Coptotermes.

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Two new species of an Indian endemic genus Krishnacapritermes Chhotani (Isoptera: Termitidae) from the Kerala part of the Western Ghats, India

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Termites (Blattodea: Isoptera) of southern India: current knowledge on distribution and systematic checklist

Termites (Blattodea: Isoptera) of southern India: current knowledge on distribution and systematic checklist

Identification and phylogenetic analysis of various termite species distributed across southern Haryana, India

A New Record of Termite <i>Coptotermes emersoni</i> Ahmed

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