Species Porotermes adamsoni (Froggatt, 1897)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calotermes adamsoni Froggatt, W.W. 1897. Australian Termitidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 510-552 pls xxxv-xxxvi [date on journal 1896, actual date of publication 31 May, 1897 Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775–1930 with Biographical Notes on Authors and Collectors. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales viii 380 pp. [103]] [532].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC No. 9162 ♂ alate, Uralla, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC soldier (morphotype); NMV alates, soldiers, presoldier, workers (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 [36].
• Porotermes (Porotermes) froggatti Holmgren, N. 1911. Termitenstudien 2. Systematik der Termiten Die Familien Mastotermitidae, Protermitidae und Mesotermitidae. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 46(6): 1-86 pls1-6 [51] [nom. nud.; the taxon was characterised only by locality, 'aus Tasmanien'].
• Porotermes (Planitermes) froggatti Holmgren, N. 1912. Neue Termiten aus dem Deutschen Entomologischen Museum. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1: 280-282 [281] [name made available by applying it to soldiers and workers erroneously included in the redescriptions of Calotermes convexus Walker, 1853 by Hagen, H. 1858. Monographie der Termiten. Linnaea Entomologica 12: 1–342 pls i–iii (46) and Froggatt, W.W. 1897. Australian Termitidae. Part II. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 21: 510–552 pls xxxv–xxxvi [date on journal 1896, actual date of publication 31 May, 1897 Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775–1930 with Biographical Notes on Authors and Collectors. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales viii 380 pp. [103]] (523)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, ?TAS.
• Porotermes (Planitermes) grandis Holmgren, N. 1912. Neue Termiten aus dem Deutschen Entomologischen Museum. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1: 280-282 [281].

  Type data:

   Lectotype DEIB soldier, Cape Otway (as Otnay), VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH soldier.

  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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls [33]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and montane SE Australia N to Brisbane area.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Rotting wood, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests in tree trunks or logs, minor economic importance.

 

General References

Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls [35-36] (biology)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [10] (distribution)