Species Nasutitermes exitiosus (Hill, 1925)

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• Eutermes exitiosus Hill, G.F. 1925. Termites from the Australian region: descriptions of new species and hitherto undescribed castes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 37: 206-229 pls xxiii-xxvi [222].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV No. T-10878 ♂ alate, Ludlow, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) NMV soldier, worker (morphotypes); NMV alates, soldiers, workers (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. [217] (Watson, J.A.L. & Gay, F.J. 1980. The identities of Termes australis Walker and Termes fumipennis Walker (Isoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19: 19–25 [20] cited the primary type as a holotype).
• Termes australis Walker, F. 1853. List of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part III. – (Termitidae – Ephemeridae). London : British Museum pp. iii 447-585. [525].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ alate, Adelaide, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watson, J.A.L. & Gay, F.J. 1980. The identities of Termes australis Walker and Termes fumipennis Walker (Isoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19: 19-25 [20].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watson, J.A.L. & Gay, F.J. 1980. The identities of Termes australis Walker and Termes fumipennis Walker (Isoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19: 19-25 [22] (Watson, J.A.L. & Gay, F.J. 1981. Eutermes exitiosus Hill, 1925 (Insecta, Isoptera): proposed conservation by use of the plenary powers. Bull. Zool. Nomen. 38: 142–146., asked the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to conserve the name Eutermes exitiosus. The name was conserved in Opinion 1310, June 1985)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australia S of 26ºS.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests compact, in mounds or subterranean, diet sound wood including timber in service, weathered wood, plant litter, major economic importance.

 

General References

Hill, G.F. 1942. Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 479 pp. 24 pls. [216-217] (biology, importance)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1985. Seasonal cycles in Nasutitermes exitiosus (Hill) (Isoptera: Termitidae) I. Caste development. Sociobiology 10: 73-92

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1986. Seasonal cycles in Nasutitermes exitiosus (Hill) (Isoptera: Termitidae) II. Nest temperature. Sociobiology 11: 255-273 (seasonal cycles of castes, nest temperature)

Watson, J.A.L. & Abbey, H.M. 1993. Atlas of Australian Termites. Melbourne & Canberra : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 158 pp. [127] (distribution)

 

History of changes

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