Species Cryptotermes dudleyi Banks, 1918
- Cryptotermes dudleyi Banks, N. 1918. The termites of Panama and British Guiana. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 38: 659-667 pl. LI [660].
Type data:
Holotype MCZ soldier (apparently lost), Panama.Type locality references:
Chhotani, O.B. 1970. Taxonomy, zoogeography and phylogeny of the genus Cryptotermes (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) from the Oriental Region. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 15(1): i 1-81 [41] (reports holotype apparently lost).
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Cryptotermes dudleyi Banks is not established on mainland Australia. It has been detected as quarantine interceptions across the north coast of Australia — WA, NT and Qld. There is a 1933 record of C. dudleyi from a building on Thursday Island (probably introduced), but recent collections have failed to relocate it (R.H. Eldridge, pers. comm., 2006); Papuan, Indo-Malayan, Malagasy, Afrotropical, Neotropical regions, islands in Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Ecological Descriptors
Terrestrial.
Extra Ecological Information
Social, drywood, nests primarily in timber in service, minor economic importance.
General References
Bacchus, S. 1987. A taxonomic and biometric study of the genus Cryptotermes (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Tropical Pest Bulletin 7: iv 1-91 [53, 54] (extralimital synonymies, biology, extralimital distribution, importance)
Chhotani, O.B. 1970. Taxonomy, zoogeography and phylogeny of the genus Cryptotermes (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) from the Oriental Region. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 15(1): i 1-81 [40-41] (extralimital distribution)
Gay, F.J. & Watson, J.A.L. 1982. The genus Cryptotermes in Australia (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 88: 1-64 [17] (biology, importance)
Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [17] (distribution)