Species Glyptotermes eucalypti Froggatt, 1897

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• Glyptotermes eucalypti 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]] [548].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV No. T-11584 ♂ alate, Sydney, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) NMV alates, nymphs; SAMA alates.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Eldridge, R.H. 1996. Revision of Australian Glyptotermes Froggatt (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 35: 165-176 [169].
• Calotermes (Glyptotermes) neotuberculatus Hill, G.F. 1933. Notes on Porotermes and Calotermes (Isoptera) from the Australian region, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 46: 36-50 pls I-II [42].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC No. 9040 ♂ alate, Black Mtn, ACT.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC soldier.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [94].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Eldridge, R.H. 1996. Revision of Australian Glyptotermes Froggatt (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 35: 165-176 [169]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

N to Fraser Is.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, 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

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests in fibrous bark, dead stumps and scar tissue.

 

General References

Eldridge, R.H. 1996. Revision of Australian Glyptotermes Froggatt (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 35: 165-176 [169] (biology, distribution)

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]] [550] (biology)

Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [94] (biology)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [24] (distribution)

 

History of changes

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