THE PROTOZOA OF TERMITES 



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greatly assist in efforts to understand the distribution of flagellates 

 in termites. In the termitid^, the discovery of five species of 

 unusual amcebse in both of the only two species of Mirotennes 

 s. str. which have been investigated, suggests that other interesting 

 and important amoebae are probably present among the forty-two 

 other known species of that subgenus, and possibly in related 

 termites. 



CLASSIFICATION 



In the following outline of classification of the flagellates in 

 termites, no attempt is made to make the synonymy complete. The 

 species of these genera, their hosts and the composition of the 

 faunas of various termites have been given in Cleveland (1923), 

 Kirby (1926a), Bernstein (1928) and in part in other recent 

 papers. The figures selected are supplementary to those given by 

 Reichenow (1928) in the fifth edition of Doflein's Lehrbuch der 

 Protozoenkunde. 



Order polymastigida Blochmann 

 Family trichomonadid^ Wenyon, Family streblomastigid.?: Kofoid 



1926 

 Tricercomitus Kirby, 1930 (Fig. 



8, A) 

 HexamasHx Alexieff, 1912 

 Trichomonas Donne, 1837 

 Tritrichomonas Kofoid, 1920 

 Ditrichomonas Cutler, 1919 

 Trichotnonopsis Andrews, 1925 

 Pscudotrypanosonia Grassi, 1917 

 Family devescovinid^ Poche, 1913 

 Janickiella Duboscq and Grasse, 



1923 

 Paradevescovifia Kirby, 1926 

 Devescovina Foa, 1905 



Synonyms : 

 Foaina Janicki, 1915 (?) 

 Caduceia Franca, 1918 

 Metadevescovina Light, 1926 

 Parajoenia Janicki, 191 1 

 Gigantomonas Dogiel, 1916 



SjTionym : 

 Myxomoyms Dogiel, 1916 

 Macrotrichomonas Grassi, 1917 



and Swezy, 191 9 

 Strebloniastix Kofoid and Swezy, 



1919 emend, Kidder, 1929. 



(Fig. 8, D) 

 Family pyrsonytviphid^ (Grassi, 



1892) Koidzumi, 1921 

 Pyrsonympiha Leidy, 1877 



Synonym : 

 Lophophora Comes, 1910 

 Dinenympha Leidy, 1877 

 Family oxymonadid^ Kirby, 1928 

 Oxymonas Janicki, 1915 (Type by 



designation) (Fig. 8, C) 

 Proboscidiella Kofoid and Swezy, 



1926 (Fig. 8, B) 

 Microrhopalodhia Grassi and Foa, 



1911 

 Family galonymphid^ Grassi and 



Foa, 191 1 

 Caronympha Kirby, 1929 (Fig. 9, 



B) 

 Stephanonympha Janicki, 191 1 

 Diplonympha Grassi, 1917 

 Calonynipha (Foa, 1905) Janicki 



1915 

 Snyderella Kirby, 1929 (Fig. 9, 

 A) 



