Nasutitermitinae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Blattodea
- Family
- Termitidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Nasutitermitinae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Nasutitermitinae
The Nasutitermitinae is a near cosmopolitan subfamily of higher termites represented by 81 genera and 605 species. The highly derived soldier caste exhibits vestigial mandibles and a protruding fontanellar process on the head, known as the nasus, from which they can "shoot" chemical weaponry. Notable genera include the notorious wood-eating Nasutitermes, and the conspicuous Hospitalitermes and Constrictotermes, both distinguished for their brazen habit of forming extensive foraging trails out in the open.
...Nasutitermitinae in languages:
- Chinese
- 象白蟻亞科
- English
- Gluegun Termites
- English
- Snouted Termites
- English
- Nasute Termites
- Japanese
- テングシロアリ亜科
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Angularitermes
- Baucaliotermes
- Bulbitermes
- Coarctotermes
- Constrictotermes
- Cortaritermes
- Diversitermes
- Fulleritermes
- Grallatotermes
- Havilanditermes
- Hospitalitermes
- Lacessititermes
- Longipeditermes
- Mimeutermes
- Nasutitermes
- Occasitermes
- Parvitermes
- Rhadinotermes
- Sinonasutitermes
- Spatulitermes
- Subulitermes
- Tenuirostritermes
- Tiunatermes
- Trinervitermes
- Tumulitermes
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