Species Macrotrichomonas pulchra Grassi, 1917

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Regional Maps

• Macrotrichomonas pulchra Grassi, B. 1917. Flagellati viventi nei termiti. Memorie dell'Accademia Pontificia dei Nuovi Lincei 5 12: 331-394 (+10 plates).

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Symbiotic (host(s): Calotermes brevicornis (Froggatt, 1896) [KALOTERMITIDAE] Termite (syn. Glyptotermes brevicornis, Glyptotermes nigrolabrum Hill, Glyptotermes dubius Mjoberg, Glyptotermes perangustus Hill, Calotermes nigrolabrum, Kalotermes nigrolabrum; gut); Calotermes iridipennis Froggatt, 1896 [KALOTERMITIDAE] Termite (syn. Kalotermes iridipennis, Glyptotermes iridipennis; gut); Calotermes neotuberculatus Hill, 1933 [KALOTERMITIDAE] Termite (syn. Glyptotermes neotuberculatus; gut)).

Associated Fauna References

Kirby, H. 1942. Devescovinid flagellates of termites. II. The genera Caduceia and Macrotrichomonas. University of California Publications in Zoology 45: 93-166 (Calotermes neotuberculatus; Calotermes brevicornis; Calotermes iridipennis)

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