Species Nasutitermes carnarvonensis (Hill, 1942)

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Regional Maps

• Eutermes carnarvonensis Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [279].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC No. 9055 ♂ alate, Carnarvon Range, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC soldier, worker (morphotypes); ANIC series No. 10 3971 alate, soldiers, workers (type colony); NMV alates, soldiers, worker (type colony).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from Carnarvon Range region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nest compact, recorded from cave ceiling, diet wood, human remains.

 

General References

Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [281] (biology)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [125] (distribution)

Wylie, F.R., Walsh, G.L. & Yule, R.A. 1987. Insect damage to Aboriginal relics at burial and rock-art sites near Carnarvon in central Queensland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 26: 335-345 [336-344] (damage to human bones)

 

History of changes

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