Artigo
Key to the soldiers of Atlantitermes Fontes 1979, with a new species from Brazil (Isoptera Termitidae Nasutitermitinae)
Fecha
1997-11-01Registro en:
Tropical Zoology, v. 10, n. 2, p. 205-213, 1997.
0394-6975
10.1080/03946975.1997.10539337
WOS:000071033300001
2-s2.0-0031318598
Autor
University of Kansas (KU)
Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Resumen
A soldier-based key for the identification of the species of the neotropical termite genus Atlantitermes Fontes 1979 is presented. The diagnostic characters for the genus are reviewed and discussed, and the upturned nasus is excluded bacause it is not present in the soldier of every species. A. stercophilus n. sp., from the cerrado vegetation of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is described and illustrated. A. osborni (Emerson 1925) is recorded for the first time in the cerrado vegetation of southeastern Brazil. Drawings of the soldier of A. kirbyi (Snyder 1926) are presented for the first time.