Genus Glyptotermes Froggatt, 1897

Museums

Regional Maps

• Glyptotermes Froggatt, W.W. 1897. Australian Termitidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 510-552 pls xxxv-xxxvi [date on journal 1896, actual date of publication 31 May, 1897 Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775–1930 with Biographical Notes on Authors and Collectors. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales viii 380 pp. [103]] [543] [date on journal 1896, actual date of publication 31 May, 1897; summary characterisation p. 518, full description p. 543].

  Type species:

   Glyptotermes tuberculatus Froggatt, 1897 by subsequent designation, see Holmgren, N. 1911. Termitenstudien 2. Systematik der Termiten Die Familien Mastotermitidae, Protermitidae und Mesotermitidae. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 46(6): 1-86 pls1-6 (incorrectly designated Calotermes borneensis Haviland, 1898, not an originally included species, as type species of Glyptotermes); Snyder, T.E. 1949. Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 112: 1-490 [45].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Papuan, Indo-Malayan, introduced and established in New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Distribution References

General References

Eldridge, R.H. 1996. Revision of Australian Glyptotermes Froggatt (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 35: 165-176

 

History of changes

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