Taxonomy of the genus Longipeditermes Holmgren (Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae) from the Greater Sundas, Southeast Asia

By

Syaukani, Syaukani
Thompson, Graham J.
Yamasaki, Takeshi
Othman, Ahmad
Muarrif, Samsul
Sarong, Muhammad
Djufri, Djufri
Eguchi, Katsuyuki

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019

Original Publication

Zoosystematics and evolution

Volume

95

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

309--318

Subjects

morphological characters , Nasutitermitinae , Open-air processional columns termites , species description

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.31636

 

Abstract

More than 200 colonies of the genusLongipeditermeswere collected in our field surveys across the Sundaland region of Southeast Asia from 1998 to 2014. Two species,L. kistneriAkhtar & Ahmad andL. logipesHolmgren, are recognized and redescribed with color photographs of the workers and major soldiers. We use variation in characters of soldier caste (head capsules, antennae, and pronotum) and worker caste (antennae and mandibles) to distinguish these two species.Longipeditermes kistneriseems to prefer high-altitude forests (above 1,000 m) and has so far been found exclusively in Java and Sumatra, whileL. logipesseems to prefer lowland and swamp forests and is widespread in the Greater Sundas.