Carrijo Tiago F, Castro Daniel, Wang Menglin, Constantini Joice P, Bourguignon Thomas, Cancello Eliana M, Roisin Yves, Scheffrahn Rudolf H
Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Av. dos Estados, 5001, Sta. Terezinha, 09210-580, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI, Avenida Vásquez Cobo Calles 15 y 16, Leticia.
Zookeys. 2023 Jun 22;1167:317-352. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1167.100001. eCollection 2023.
The neotropical Apicotermitinae is a common and widespread clade of mostly soil-feeding soldierless termites. With few exceptions, species of this group were originally assigned to the genus Müller, 1873. The application of internal worker morphology coupled with genetic sequencing has recently shed light on the true diversity of this subfamily. Herein, Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, and four new species in four new genera are described: Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, , Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, , Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, , and Scheffrahn, Carrijo & Castro, Worker descriptions are based mainly on worker gut morphology, including the enteric valve, while imagoes were described based on external characters. A Bayesian phylogenetic tree of New World Apicotermitinae was constructed using the complete mitogenome to infer genera relationships and corroborate the taxonomic decisions. Distribution maps and a dichotomic key to the known Neotropical Apicotermitinae genera are provided.
新热带区的尖白蚁亚科是一个常见且分布广泛的类群，主要由以土壤为食的无兵蚁白蚁组成。除少数例外，该类群的物种最初被归入1873年的米勒属。内部工蚁形态学与基因测序的应用最近揭示了这个亚科的真正多样性。在此，描述了谢夫拉恩、卡里霍和卡斯特罗以及四个新属中的四个新物种：谢夫拉恩、卡里霍和卡斯特罗属，谢夫拉恩、卡里霍和卡斯特罗属，谢夫拉恩、卡里霍和卡斯特罗属，以及谢夫拉恩、卡里霍和卡斯特罗属。工蚁描述主要基于工蚁肠道形态，包括肠瓣，而成虫描述基于外部特征。利用完整的线粒体基因组构建了新大陆尖白蚁亚科的贝叶斯系统发育树，以推断属间关系并证实分类学决策。提供了已知新热带区尖白蚁亚科属的分布图和二叉检索表。
