Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Australitermes insignitus (Hill, 1942)

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Species Australitermes insignitus (Hill, 1942)

  • Mirotermes (Mirotermes) insignitus Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls [409].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC No. 9118 ♂ alate, Wauchope Well, approximately 75 miles (120 km) S Tennant (as Tennant's) Creek, NT.
    Paratype(s) ANIC series No. 10 4149 alates (type colony).

 

Distribution

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, SA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: W plateau
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nest and diet unknown (known only from alate caste).

 

General References

Miller, L.R. 1984. The Australian genera of the Subulitermes branch of the Nasutitermitinae (Isoptera: Termitidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 23: 119-125 [123] (nov. comb.)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [81] (distribution)