Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Heterotermes longicatena Watson & Miller, 1989

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Species Heterotermes longicatena Watson & Miller, 1989

  • Heterotermes longicatena Watson, J.A.L. & Miller, L.R. 1989. [Taxonomic discussion]. In, Watson, J.A.L., Brown, W.V., Miller, L.R., Carter, F.L. & Lacey, M.J. Taxonomy of Heterotermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in south-eastern Australia: cuticular hydrocarbons of workers, and soldier and alate morphology. Systematic Entomology 14: 299-325 [324].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC No. 9133 ♂ alate, Binya State Forest, c. 34º15´S 146º15´E, NSW.
    Paratype(s) ANIC series No. 10 20396 alates, soldiers, workers (type colony).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Central latitudes of NSW.


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

Soil, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nest unknown, diet primarily weathered wood.

 

General References

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [38] (distribution)

Watson, J.A.L. & Miller, L.R. 1989. [Taxonomic discussion]. In, Watson, J.A.L., Brown, W.V., Miller, L.R., Carter, F.L. & Lacey, M.J. Taxonomy of Heterotermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in south-eastern Australia: cuticular hydrocarbons of workers, and soldier and alate morphology. Systematic Entomology 14: 299-325 (cuticular hydrocarbons, morphology, biology, distribution)