Apicotermitinae

Roisin, Yves

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“…was not a soldierless Apicotermitinae. Among the soldiered Apicotermitinae, the body size of its foragers was more similar to that of the Oriental Euhamitermes Holmgren and the African Eburnitermes Noirot (Noirot, 1966;Ranjith et al, 2023) Weidner) that have larger and more common soldiers (Grassé & Noirot, 1955;Roisin, 2021). In addition, the anatomy of the worker gut revealed a long and narrow P1 and lack of EVA seating, indicating that E. zambo sp.n.…”

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“…(Table 1) yielded thousands of workers but no soldiers, initially suggesting that this species was another soldierless Apicotermitinae, an abundant and speciose soil‐feeder group in Africa (Bourguignon et al, 2016; Romero Arias et al, 2021). We believed that the new species likely has similar gut traits as other African soldierless species due to their reliance on numerous workers and specific adaptations for food resource use and colony defence (Roisin, 2021). However, the morphological examination in the lab and the subsequent discovery of a few soldiers indicated that E. zambo sp.n.…”

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“…As in Euhamitermes , the soldiers of E. zambo sp.n. are rare, which markedly seperate them from other soldiered apicotermitines (e.g., Duplidentitermes Emerson, Heimitermes Grassé, Labidotermes Deligne & Pasteels and Machadotermes Weidner) that have larger and more common soldiers (Grassé & Noirot, 1955; Roisin, 2021). In addition, the anatomy of the worker gut revealed a long and narrow P1 and lack of EVA seating, indicating that E. zambo sp.n.…”

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Mitochondrial phylogenetics position a new Afrotropical termite species into its own subfamily, the Engelitermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae)

Romero Arias,

Hellemans,

Kaymak

et al. 2023

Systematic Entomology

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While new species of termites are described every year, the description of species distant from every known termite species is rare. In this paper, we describe one such species, Engelitermes zambo sp.n., an African Termitidae belonging to an entirely new lineage of termites for which we create a new subfamily, Engelitermitinae subfam.n. The subfamily status of Engelitermitinae was supported by termite phylogenetic trees, including sequences from the four existing samples of E. zambo sp.n., which, albeit with low bootstrap supports, placed Engelitermes gen.n. on a long branch sister to Forficulitermes, the two of which formed the sister group of a clade comprising Cubitermitinae, Nasutitermitinae, Syntermitinae and all other Termitinae. The sister relationship between Engelitermes gen.n. and Forficulitermes is further supported by the similar gut structure of their workers. In contrast, the soldiers of Engelitermes gen.n. resemble those of Cephalotermes. Our phylogenetic analyses, including all clades of Termitinae, call for a global taxonomic revision of the Termitinae subfamily names. Finally, our study highlights that new unique termite lineages are still awaiting to be described.

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Mitochondrial phylogenetics position a new Afrotropical termite species into its own subfamily, the Engelitermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae)

Romero Arias,

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Kaymak

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“…Bourguignon et al ., 2010, 2016a; Acioli & Constantino, 2015; Constantini et al ., 2018), the systematics of this subfamily remains largely unresolved. To date, 224 species and 52 genera of Apicotermitinae have been described, with diversity hotspots located in Africa and South America (Bourguignon et al ., 2016b; Constantino, 2020; Roisin, 2021). However, the actual diversity of the group is much larger, and many species, still awaiting formal description, have been informally labelled as morphospecies in ecological surveys (e.g.…”

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Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of Apicotermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae)

Arias

Boom

Wang

et al. 2021

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Soil‐feeding termites are abundant in tropical regions and play an important role in soil bioturbation and in the organic matter cycle. The Apicotermitinae are arguably the most diverse lineage of soil‐feeding termites, but they are also the most understudied, probably because many species are soldierless, which makes identification difficult. Although the backbone of the termite phylogenetic tree is now well‐resolved, the relationships among representatives of Apicotermitinae are still largely unknown. Here, we present phylogenetic trees inferred from 113 mitochondrial genomes of Apicotermitinae representative of the group diversity. Our analyses confirm the monophyly of the Apicotermitinae and the basal position of soldiered taxa, within which two lineages of soldierless species are nested. We describe two new monotypic genera, whose phylogenetic position appeared of special interest: Koutabatermes gen. n., lies on a long branch among soldiered taxa, and Apolemotermes gen. n., is sister to Adaiphrotermes. We resolved, with high support, the position of Asian genera as sister group of a clade comprising the monophyletic neotropical Anoplotermes‐group and the small African clade including Adaiphrotermes and Apolemotermes gen. n.. Our trees cast light on the intergeneric and interspecific relationships within Apicotermitinae and reveal the polyphyly of several genera, including Ruptitermes, Astalotermes and Anoplotermes. Biogeographic reconstructions revealed two dispersal events out of Africa, one to the Oriental realm and one to the Neotropical realm. Overall, the timing of Apicotermitinae diversification and dispersal, following the Eocene–Oligocene boundary, matches that found for other groups of Neoisoptera. Nomenclatural acts are registered in ZooBank: http://zoobank.org/CA1A21B6-573E-4855-8C88-372453C922F7.

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Apicotermitinae

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Mitochondrial phylogenetics position a new Afrotropical termite species into its own subfamily, the Engelitermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae)

Mitochondrial phylogenetics position a new Afrotropical termite species into its own subfamily, the Engelitermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae)

Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of Apicotermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae)

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