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Species Cryptotermes riverinae Gay & Watson, 1982

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Species Cryptotermes riverinae Gay & Watson, 1982

  • Cryptotermes riverinae Gay, F.J. & Watson, J.A.L. 1982. The genus Cryptotermes in Australia (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 88: 1-64 [30].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC No. 9028 soldier, Yanco, NSW.
    Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ alate (morphotype); ANIC series No. 10 15946 alates, soldiers, workers (type colony).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Riverina area.


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

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, drywood, nests in dead scars and stumps of eucalypts.

 

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)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [21] (distribution)