caa a22 4500 397546785 CHVBK 20180308164740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19961101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/aesa/89.6.775 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/aesa/89.6.775 Generic Revision of the Smaller Nasute Termites of the Greater Antilles (Isoptera, Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae) [Elektronische Daten] [Yves Roisin, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Jan Křečk] The generic status of the Greater Antillean smaller nasutes (all genera except Nasutitermes) is revised, paying special attention to anatomical characters of the workers. Two new monotypic genera, Caribitermes and Antillitermes, are created. Terrenitermes Spaeth, 1967, is synonymized with Parvitermes Emerson (in Snyder 1949). The following new combinations are proposed: Parvitermes aequalis (Snyder, 1924a) (formerly in Obtusitermes), Parvitermes antillarum (Holmgren, 1910) (formerly in Velocitermes), Parvitermes toussainti (Banks, 1919) (formerly in Terrenitermes), Caribitermes discolor (Banks, 1919) and Antillitermes subtilis (Scheffrahn & Křeček, 1993) (both formerly in Parvitermes). The 2 mainland species formerly assigned to Parvitermes should be removed from this genus: one resulting new combination is Velocitermes laticephalus (Snyder, 1926), whereas the actual taxonomic position of the species described as Parvitermes bacchanalis Mathews, 1977, remains unclear. With the exception of a Constrictotermes species present in Cuba, the smaller nasute fauna of the Greater Antilles and adjacent Bahamas and Virgin Islands now appears endemic to this region at the genus level. We hypothesize that an ancestor related to Obtusitermes diversified in the Greater Antilles and gave rise to all Parvitermes, Caribitermes and perhaps Antillitermes species. © 1996 Entomological Society of America Systematics nationallicence Termitidae nationallicence taxonomy nationallicence biogeography nationallicence new genera nationallicence West Indies nationallicence Neotropical Region nationallicence Roisin Yves Research Associate, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium). Towhom reprint requests should be addressed: e-mail: yroisin@ulb.ac.be. aut Scheffrahn Rudolf H. University of Florida, IFAS, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, 3205 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314. aut Křečk Jan University of Florida, IFAS, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, 3205 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314. aut Annals of the Entomological Society of America Oxford University Press 89/6(1996-11-01), 775-787 0013-8746 89:6<775 1996 89 aesa https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/89.6.775 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/89.6.775 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roisin Yves Research Associate, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium). Towhom reprint requests should be addressed: e-mail: yroisin@ulb.ac.be aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Scheffrahn Rudolf H. University of Florida, IFAS, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, 3205 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Křečk Jan University of Florida, IFAS, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, 3205 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Annals of the Entomological Society of America Oxford University Press 89/6(1996-11-01), 775-787 0013-8746 89:6<775 1996 89 aesa Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford