Challenges and physiological implications of wood feeding in termites

ME Scharf - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Several defensive features of wood pose challenges to wood-feeding
termites.•Lignin and secondary metabolites appear as the most important defensive …

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

J Romero Arias, A Boom, M Wang… - Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging and spectral analysis of autofluorescence distribution in larval head structures of mosquito vectors

F Scolari, A Girella, AC Croce - European Journal of Histochemistry …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Autofluorescence (AF) in mosquitoes is currently poorly explored, despite its great potential
for investigation of body structures and biological functions. Here, for the first time AF in …

Caputitermes, a new genus of soldierless termite (Blattaria: Isoptera: Termitidae) with dimorphic workers from the Amazon rainforest

R Almeida-azevedo, ANS Acioli, JW MORAIS… - Acta …, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
ABSTRACT Soldierless termites (Blattodea: Isoptera: Apicotermitinae) are a small and
taxonomically poorly known group, especially in the Neotropical region. In this paper we …

Step-by-step Dissection Protocol of Apicotermitinae Worker (Blattaria: Isoptera)

R Almeida-Azevedo, J Alves-Oliveira, JW Morais… - Sociobiology, 2023 - ojs3.uefs.br
Apicotermitinae are soldierless termites highly abundant in tropical forests. The taxonomy of
this subfamily is based on characters of worker cast and winged forms when present …

Ebogotermes raphaeli, new genus and new species, an African soldierless termite described from the worker caste (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitinae)

RH Scheffrahn, Y Roisin, PD Akama, J Šobotník - Zootaxa, 2021 - biotaxa.org
Ebogotermes raphaeli gen. n. sp. n., is described from workers collected in Cameroon. This
soil-feeding termite is the largest soldierless termite from central Africa and aligns with the …

Apicotermitinae

Y Roisin - Encyclopedia of Social Insects, 2021 - Springer
The Hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising almost 160,000
described extant species with a true total of possibly over one million species. Most species …

Estudo taxonômico dos Apicotermitinae (Isoptera: Termitidae) da coleção de Isoptera do museu de biodiversidade Tauari

ELM SILVA - 2021 - repositorio.unifesspa.edu.br
Cupins são insetos eussociais pertencentes à infraordem Isoptera (Blattodea) e estima-se
que há várias espécies por serem descritas. Atualmente algumas famílias e subfamílias …