Species Microcerotermes implacidus Hill, 1942

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• Microcerotermes implacidus Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [452].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC No. 9130 soldier, 20 miles (32 km) SE Griffith, NSW.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ alate, worker (morphotypes); ANIC series No. 10 4263 alates, soldiers, workers (type colony).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nest unknown, apparently subterranean, diet weathered wood, plant detritus.

 

General References

Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [454] (biology)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [120] (distribution)

 

History of changes

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