ANTILLEAN NASUTITERMITINAE (ISOPTERA, TERMITIDAE) - PARVITERMES COLLINSAE, A NEW SUBTERRANEAN TERMITE FROM HISPANIOLA AND REDESCRIPTION OF P-PALLIDICEPS AND P-WOLCOTTI
Rh. Scheffrahn et Y. Roisin, ANTILLEAN NASUTITERMITINAE (ISOPTERA, TERMITIDAE) - PARVITERMES COLLINSAE, A NEW SUBTERRANEAN TERMITE FROM HISPANIOLA AND REDESCRIPTION OF P-PALLIDICEPS AND P-WOLCOTTI, The Florida entomologist, 78(4), 1995, pp. 585-600
Three Parvitermes species are described from recent Antillean collecti
ons. All exhibit a dimorphic soldier caste characterized by rare major
soldiers, reported from Parvitermes for the first time, and minor sol
diers with constricted heads. Workers share similarities in digestive
tube morphology and enteric valve armature. Soldiers and workers of a
new species, Parvitermes collinsae, are described and the descriptions
of Parvitermes wolcotti (Snyder, 1924) from Puerto Rico and P. pallid
iceps (Banks, 1919) from Hispaniola are revised.