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Genus Procryptotermes Holmgren, 1910

  • Procryptotermes Holmgren, N. 1910. Isoptera. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Vol. III. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Ser. 2 14: 135-148 [139] [first made available as a subgenus of Calotermes Hagen, 1858].
    Type species:
     Calotermes fryeri Holmgren, 1910 by monotypy.
  • Procryptotermes Holmgren, N. 1910. Das System der Termiten. Zoologischer Anzeiger 35: 284-286 [285] [nom. nud.; first introduced as a subgenus of Calotermes Hagen, 1858 but without description].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

S Pacific Ils.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Afrotropical Region

  • Madagascar

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Neotropical Region

Distribution References

  • Krishna, K. 1961. A generic revision and phylogenetic study of the family Kalotermitidae (Isoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 122: 303-408 [378]