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: soldier mandibles figured 231 fig. 4.
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: soldier figured 1019 fig. 33.15b.
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Scheffrahn
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1983
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: soldier figured; 1297 fig. 1.
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<bibRefCitation id="EFA6918ED900FFFFFF1A57D764DC13BB" author="Scheffrahn, R. H. &amp; Gaston, L. K. &amp; Nutting, W. L. &amp; Rust, M. K." box="[151,391,925,949]" pageId="5" pageNumber="586" pagination="661 - 664" refId="ref3836" refString="Scheffrahn, R. H., Gaston, L. K., Nutting, W. L. &amp; Rust, M. K. (1986 a) Chemical heterogeneity of soldier defensive secretions in the desert subterranean termite, Amitermes wheeleri. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 14, 661 - 664. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / 0305 - 1978 (86) 90049 - 9" type="journal article" year="1986">
Scheffrahn
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: soldier figured; 662 fig. 1 (right).
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Scheffrahn
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1989
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: soldier figured; 619 fig. 1.
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: soldier figured; 468 figs. 2223.
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Krishna
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2013: 20612062
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.
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A key that includes the soldiers of Nearctic species of
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beginning with couplet 9a (
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). This key did not include
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. In order to accommodate
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<emphasis id="B943306DD900FFFFFB1B50C960601492" box="[1174,1339,1154,1181]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="586">A. californicus</emphasis>
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, couplet 9a must be modified and another couplet (10) added as follows:
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Teeth large, conical, directed inward..................................................................
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Teeth acute, cut out of margin and set off from basal hump by deep notch....................................
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Mandible blades and teeth stout, mean head width ca.
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, herein); common in the arid lands of the southwestern
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Mandible blades and teeth slender, mean head width ca.
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(
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, herein); common in the arid lands of the southwestern
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, and mesic central Florida but may be absent or rare in California.........
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Light
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