Species Microcerotermes leai Hill, 1927

Museums

Regional Maps

• Microcerotermes leai 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 [70].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA soldier, Ooldea, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♂ alate, ♀ alate (both lacking wings), worker (morphotypes, type colony); SAMA alates, workers (type colony); NMV alates, soldier, worker (type colony).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [430].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nest unknown, diet apparently weathered wood.

 

General References

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)