“…Maping all the localities of the "luminous termite hills" referred to in the literature, I observed a great coincidence with the distribution of the "pumilus group". Castelnau, 1850, observed the phenomenon of the "luminous termite nests" at "Agua Limpa", near Goilis; Smith, 1879, near Santarem, Para;Knab, 1895, at Lower Amazonas;Knab, 1909, at Santarem, Para;Branner, 1910 (referring Lustosa) at the northern part of Mato Grosso where it joins Bolivia; Neiva & Penna, 1916 at several localities from Mato Grosso, Goias and Bahia; Lenko & Papavero, 1979 referred observations of Marien, 1946 at Mato Grosso andOtero, 1954, at Goias;Redford, 1981 at Goias, Parque Nacional das Emas.…”