Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Macrognathotermes sunteri (Hill, 1927)

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Species Macrognathotermes sunteri (Hill, 1927)

  • Mirotermes sunteri 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 [106].
    Type data:
     Lectotype NMV No. T-10875 ♂ alate, Darwin, NT.
    Paralectotype(s) NMV soldier, worker (morphotypes).
    Subsequent designation references:
    Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls [407].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Bathurst Is.


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, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Soil, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests in mounds, often on or adjacent to mounds of Coptotermes acinaciformis, diet humic material in soil or mound material.

 

General References

Miller, L.R. 1991. A revision of the Termes-Capritermes branch of the Termitinae in Australia (Isoptera: Termitidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 1147-1282 [1262, 1264] (nov. comb., biology)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [116] (distribution)