Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Microcerotermes repugnans Hill, 1927

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Species Microcerotermes repugnans Hill, 1927

  • Microcerotermes repugnans 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 [37].
    Type data:
     Lectotype NMV No. T-10860 soldier, 30 miles (48 km) SE Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (the label with the types in Hill's hand, reads 'Kaile' or 'Keile', perhaps the present-day Gaile).
    Paralectotype(s) NMV worker (morphotype).
    Subsequent designation references:
    Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls [441].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Yam Is., New Guinea.


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), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Soil, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests in mounds, diet includes weathered wood.

 

General References

Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls [440] (biology, extralimital distribution)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [122] (distribution)