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Species Cryptotermes gearyi (Hill, 1942)

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Species Cryptotermes gearyi (Hill, 1942)

  • Calotermes (Cryptotermes) gearyi Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls [83].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC No. 9031 soldier, Dalby, QLD.
    Paratype(s) ANIC 1♂, 1♀ alate (morphotypes); ANIC series No. 10 1667 alates, soldiers (type colony).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Extreme SE QLD.


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

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, drywood, nests in logs, stumps, dead wood of standing trees.

 

General References

Gay, F.J. & Watson, J.A.L. 1982. The genus Cryptotermes in Australia (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 88: 1-64 (biology, distribution)

Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls (biology)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [18] (distribution)