Species Cristatitermes froggatti (Hill, 1915)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Capritermes froggatti Hill, G.F. 1915. Northern Territory Termitidae. Part i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 40: 83-113 pls xiv-xxiii [misspelled as Copritermes].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV No. T-10865 queen, 34 miles (54 km) E Darwin, NT.
  Paralectotype(s) NMV soldier, worker (morphotypes; the soldier, now broken and in alcohol, had been mounted dry on a point, labelled 'froggatti Type' in Hill's hand).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hill, G.F. 1927. Termites from the Australian region. Part I. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 7: 5-120 pls i-ix [99].

  Type locality references:

  Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [383] (gave bearing as SE).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests in mounds of other termites, diet weathered wood, detritus in other termite mounds.

 

General References

Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [383] (biology)

Miller, L.R. 1991. A revision of the Termes-Capritermes branch of the Termitinae in Australia (Isoptera: Termitidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 1147-1282 [1206] (nov. comb., biology)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [84] (distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)