Kalotermitidae

TaxID: 46562

Basic Information

Kalotermitidae

Dampwood Termites, powder-post termites

Kalotermitidae (drywood termites), are a basal family with a roughly cosmopolitan circumtropical distribution. With 21 genera and 419 species, it is the second most diverse termite family after the Termitidae. The majority of members are functionally specialists of sound wood - though not necessarily dry wood. Hence, while not all Kalotermitidae taxa are commonly referred to as drywood termites, the name is commonly used to refer to the family itself. The family contains notable pest taxa such as Cryptotermes brevis and Incisitermes minor.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Blattodea

Kalotermitidae

unclassified

nan

nan

Photos (0 photos)

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Morphological Features

Family diagnosis based on imago-worker mandible: left mandible with apical tooth shorter than marginal teeth; left mandible with three distinct marginal teeth, third marginal tooth well developed; right mandible with second marginal tooth well developed, its posterior margin concave. Soldier head subquadrangular to subrectangular, with fontanelle located in a small depression, with two flat longitudinal ridges in front of the opening forming a faint groove leading to clypeal base; soldier head devoid of frontal projection. Imago-worker right mandible with well-developed subsidiary tooth at base of first and second marginal teeth, anterior margin angular, posterior margin curved. Hind wing with Sc absent (presumably fused to C); M poorly sclerotized, diverging from Rs apical to but near basal scale, then arcing anteriorly to terminate into Rs beyond wing midlength; R1 terminates into costal margin in basal half of wing, often around one-third wing length, well prior to tangent at which M fuses with Rs.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Family diagnosis Source Type: Scholarly article
Citation:

Simon Hellemans, Mauricio M. Rocha, Menglin Wang, Johanna Romero Arias. 2024. Genomic data provide insights into the classification of extant termites

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR35421145 whole body (degutted) - - 28016177 China: Guangxi, Nanning
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SRR35421144 whole body (degutted) - - 32600859 China: Guangxi, Nanning
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SRR35421187 whole body (degutted) - - 24167417 China: Guangxi, Nanning
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DNA Barcodes (1768 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
VAQT1096-10 BOLD:AAQ3178 COI-5P 658 Australia 2010-11-14 -19.28279, 146.80067
TWENT336-25 BOLD:AAY6721 COI-5P 658 New Zealand 2025-01-12 -36.8741, 174.8463
TTSOW709-12 BOLD:ACB3439 COI-5P 637 United States 2011-08-12 32.425, -110.924
TTSOW706-12 BOLD:ACB3671 COI-5P 658 United States 2011-05-22 27.264, -82.308
TTSOW705-12 BOLD:ACB3528 COI-5P 658 United States 2011-05-17 25.993, -81.595
TTSOW700-12 BOLD:ACT0197 COI-5P 447 United States 2011-07-12 34.754, -112.018
TTSOW589-11 BOLD:AAW5220 COI-5P 636 Australia 2010-12-24 -32.377, 152.504
TTSOW208-10 BOLD:AAH4038 COI-5P 658 Australia 2009-12-26 -31.063, 153.052
TTSOW207-10 BOLD:AAH4038 COI-5P 636 Australia 2009-12-26 -31.063, 153.052
TTDIW096-09 BOLD:AAK8412 COI-5P 407 Australia 1998-04-21 -
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