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Species Tumulitermes mareebensis (Hill, 1922)

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Species Tumulitermes mareebensis (Hill, 1922)

  • Eutermes mareebensis Hill, G.F. 1922. Descriptions and biology of some north Australian termites. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47: 142-160 pls xxiii-xxv [151].
    Type data:
     Lectotype NMV No. T-10881 major soldier (Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [242] mentioned the 'Holotype winged adult, morphotype soldiers of large form and worker' of 'Eutermes mareebensis' 'in the National Museum, Melbourne'. This constitutes a lectotype designation. However, the original type series consisted of major soldiers and workers only, the alate being described in Hill, G.F. 1929. Notes on Australian termites (Isoptera). Descriptions of new species. Proc. R. Soc. Vict. ns 41: 85–96 pl. xiv [90]. The designation of an alate as lectotype was, therefore, invalid), Mareeba, QLD.
    Paralectotype(s) NMV worker (morphotype); NMV soldiers, workers (type colony).
    Subsequent designation references:
    Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls; Hill, G.F. 1929. Notes on Australian termites (Isoptera). Descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 41: 85-96 pl. xiv; 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.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cape York Peninsula.


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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Soil, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests in old mounds of other termites, diet unknown.

 

General References

Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls [241] (biology)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [143] (distribution)