Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Heterotermes occiduus (Hill, 1927)

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Species Heterotermes occiduus (Hill, 1927)

  • Leucotermes occiduus Hill, G.F. 1927. Termites from the Australian region. Part I. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 7: 5-120 pls i-ix [50].
    Type data:
     Lectotype NMV No. T-10845 ♀ alate, Mundaring, WA.
    Paralectotype(s) NMV ♂ alate, soldier, worker (morphotypes).
    Subsequent designation references:
    Watson, J.A.L., Miller, L.R. & Abbey, H.M. 1998. Isoptera. pp. 163-250 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 xiii 464 pp.

 

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, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin
    • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Soil, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests subterranean, diffuse, diet primarily weathered wood.

 

General References

Perry, D.H., Watson, J.A.L., Bunn, S.E. & Black, R. 1985. Guide to the termites (Isoptera) from the extreme south-west of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 67: 66-78 [72, 74] (biology, distribution)

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 [300, 318, 320] (cuticular hydrocarbons, morphology, biology)