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Genus Prorhinotermes Silvestri, 1909

  • Prorhinotermes Silvestri, F. 1909. Isoptera. 279-314 pls xvi-xxi in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Vol. 2. Jena : Fischer [286].
    Type species:
     Prorhinotermes inopinatus Silvestri, 1909 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Snyder, T.E. 1949. Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 112: 1-490 [85]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malayan, W 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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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: N Gulf, NE coastal

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Distribution References

  • Snyder, T.E. 1949. Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 112: 1-490 [86-88]