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” -
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(listed under “not classified”) “
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” -
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<bibRefCitation id="AB1F4B440B79FFDECEF85219FD6CF8E6" author="Constantino" box="[475,667,1868,1891]" pageId="0" pageNumber="275" refString="Constantino, R. (1998) Catalog of the living termites of the New World (Insecta: Isoptera). Arquivos de Zoologia, 35, 135 - 231. https: // doi. org / 10.11606 / issn. 2176 - 7793. v 35 i 2 p 135 - 230" type="journal article" year="1998">Constantino 1998</bibRefCitation>
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(listed under “names of uncertain position”) “
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B79FFDECFF0523BFE1FF800" box="[211,488,1902,1925]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">Anoplotermes burmeisteri</emphasis>
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” -
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Krishna
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2013
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(new combination)
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:
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mentions
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from
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, “
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” (
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, here designated: the nasute soldier depicted in Czerwinskis Photos 9B and 9C (reproduced here in
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D-E) is to be treated as the
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was originally deposited in MZPW, Warsaw,
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. According to
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,
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), he collected termites in
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, State of
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Rio
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, in the region between his house (
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) and
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(
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). The distance between these two sites is about
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. They are both located within the Pampas eco-region, where the most common natural vegetation is open grassland. The locality “Rio Grande” mentioned by
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and Jhering (1887) was just a short form of the name of the state, and should not be confused with the city of Rio Grande, which is located about
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south of São Lourenço.
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCFE45485FEB5FE62" bold="true" box="[199,322,464,487]" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Etymology</emphasis>
:
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does not mention anything about the etymology. Probably named for Hermann Burmeister (
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), the famous German zoologist.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCFE45740FE89FDA9" bold="true" box="[199,382,533,556]" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">New synonymy:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCEA55740FD99FDA9" box="[390,622,533,556]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Eutermes burmeisteri</emphasis>
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is a junior synonym of
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCB175740FAC6FDA9" box="[1076,1329,533,556]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Cortaritermes fulviceps</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="8794653E0B78FFDFCFE4570FFE90FACC" pageId="1" pageNumber="276" type="description">
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCFE4570FFD68FDF4" bold="true" box="[199,671,602,625]" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Translation of the original description</emphasis>
. Diagnosis (original in Latin): “Brownish-black; prothorax dark; mouthparts, legs, margins of abdominal segments, and middle of abdomen yellow; wings yellowish-gray, costal veins brown, obscure third line near the subcosta absent; head rounded; ocelli large, its distance from eyes twice its diameter; prothorax rounded. Body length
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, with wings
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.” Description (original in Russian): “
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, 4 nasute larvae,
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, 4 nasutes, 1 winged female, 1 winged male, 1 fertile female [queen?]. Given by Iering from
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(Rio Grande) in 1893. The winged forms of this species (Fig. 9, A) differ in the following characteristic features. Body length
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, with wings
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. The ocelli (e) are very far away from the eye, about
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its diameter. Near the eyes, a little closer to the middle line of the forehead, there are more spots, more of the surrounding background. On the middle of the forehead is a rather large, bare, round spot (a) (fontanelle). Under the subcostal vein, a yellow line is absent. The vein of the wing, as in
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCE1A56C7FE40FC2C" box="[313,439,914,937]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Termes ater</emphasis>
Hagen. Other
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attributes, as in
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCDDF56C7FC36FC2C" box="[764,961,914,937]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Termes tenebrosus</emphasis>
Kollar. Hagen
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, in his monograph, at the end of the description of the latter species, adds a note [
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], in which a termite specimen given by Burmeister is mentioned; this specimen is intermediate between
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCC74568DFC12FC6A" box="[855,997,984,1007]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">T. tenebrosus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCB3E568DFB94FC6A" box="[1053,1123,984,1007]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">T. ater</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Having only one specimen, Hagen was uneasy to describe it as a new species. Fertile female: length
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, width
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. It differs from infertile ones by the light color. Nasutes of this collection (see Fig 9, B and C) have a length of
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from the end of the abdomen to the end of the nasus. Length of head with nasus
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. If we consider the beginning of the nasus at the base of the antennae (B, C), then the length of the nasus is equal to the length of the head (from b to c). The head capsule is significantly wider than its length. Behind the nasus is a weak swelling (n'). The angle between the nasus and the front surface of the head is shown in the attached profile photograph (C). 13-segmented antennae (c) with a length of
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. First segment cylindrical, very long and thick; the second and fourth are half as long; the 3rd is equal in length to the first, but already, the others are a little more than the fourth, ovate. The width of the prothorax is equal to half the width of the head. The prothorax forms a narrow collar in front. The color is bright yellow with a reddish-yellow head and a dark-brown nasus.”
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="8794653E0B78FFDCCFE45000FBFBFEBC" lastPageId="2" lastPageNumber="277" pageId="1" pageNumber="276" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCFE45000FEC8FAE9" bold="true" box="[199,319,1365,1388]" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Discussion</emphasis>
. The
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of
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCD215000FD6CFAE9" box="[514,667,1365,1388]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">E. burmeisteri</emphasis>
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belonged to two different species. The imago (
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) is a soldierless termite (Apicotermitinae) and the soldier (Fig. 2D-E) is a nasute (
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). It is uncertain why
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Krishna
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(2013)
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formed the new combination “
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCD0D50CFFCB2FA34" box="[558,837,1434,1457]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Anoplotermes burmeisteri</emphasis>
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”. Based on Czerwinskis description and illustrations it is impossible to determine whether the imago belongs to the genus
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCC5650E8FBFEFA51" box="[885,1033,1469,1492]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Anoplotermes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. It is only possible to identify it as a member of the
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCE1C50B5FE24FA72" box="[319,467,1504,1527]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Anoplotermes</emphasis>
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-group, which currently includes 13 neotropical genera. The size and the large fontanelle (
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) indicates that it probably belongs to the genus
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCDDE5357FC62F99C" box="[765,917,1538,1561]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Patawatermes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Furthermore, this name could not be classified without the selection of a
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. The imago has no precedence in this case. Both imagoes and soldiers were listed in the
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series, described in the text, and illustrated, and are equally eligible for
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selection.
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designation based on a figure is explicitly allowed by ICZN article 74.4, even when the specimen no longer exists. The soldier was selected as the
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because it can be identified based on the available information, while the imago cannot. Czerwinskis description of the nasute soldier matches perfectly
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. Although it is also compatible with the soldier of some species of
<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCDBB5387FCD3F96C" box="[664,804,1746,1769]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Nasutitermes</emphasis>
, data available on the termite fauna of
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and the information provided by
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,
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) corroborate the synonymy proposed here. Iherings termites were collected in open vegetation, where the only common nasute is
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCCA1524DFBF6F8AA" box="[898,1025,1816,1839]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">C. fulviceps</emphasis>
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. No species of
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has been reported from these grasslands. The most common species of
<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCC07526FFC46F8D4" box="[804,945,1850,1873]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Nasutitermes</emphasis>
in
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is
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCB97526FFAC1F8D4" box="[1204,1334,1850,1873]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">N. aquilinus</emphasis>
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, which is a forest species. Their soldiers are quite larger and the shape of their heads is distinct. The only other species of
<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCFB452D5FED3F812" box="[151,292,1920,1943]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">Nasutitermes</emphasis>
reported from this region is
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B78FFDFCD4052D5FD1FF812" box="[611,744,1920,1943]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="276">N. ehrhardti</emphasis>
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, which is also a forest species, relatively rare. The mixed
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series, including nasute soldiers and imagoes of Apicotermitinae indicates that these specimens were collected by Ihering from the same nest, where the latter were probably inquilines. Ihering incorrectly assumed that all termites sharing a nest belonged to the same species. While the mounds built by
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<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B7BFFDCCC2155CDFC88FF2A" box="[770,895,152,175]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="277">C. fulviceps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
often harbor soldierless termites as inquilines, the arboreal, carton nests built by most
<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B7BFFDCCD3B55EFFD53FF54" box="[536,676,186,209]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="277">Nasutitermes</emphasis>
do not. Although the names
<taxonomicName id="088E4D360B7BFFDCCCFE55EFFBACFF54" baseAuthorityName="Silvestri" baseAuthorityYear="1901" box="[989,1115,186,209]" class="Insecta" family="Termitidae" genus="Cortaritermes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="277" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fulviceps">
<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B7BFFDCCCFE55EFFBACFF54" box="[989,1115,186,209]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="277">C. fulviceps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="088E4D360B7BFFDCCBB255EFFADDFF54" box="[1169,1322,186,209]" class="Insecta" family="Termitidae" genus="Anoplotermes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Blattodea" pageId="2" pageNumber="277" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="burmeisteri">
<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B7BFFDCCBB255EFFADDFF54" box="[1169,1322,186,209]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="277">E. burmeisteri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were both published in the same year, Silvestris paper explicitly indicates the publication date as
<date id="BB3010750B7BFFDCCB615588FB36FF71" box="[1090,1217,221,244]" pageId="2" pageNumber="277" value="1901-07-09">1901 July 9</date>
, while Czerwinskis paper indicates only the year. In this case, the date to be adopted is the last day of the year (ICZN article 21). Therefore
<taxonomicName id="088E4D360B7BFFDCCFB45477FEE2FEBC" baseAuthorityName="Silvestri" baseAuthorityYear="1901" box="[151,277,290,313]" class="Insecta" family="Termitidae" genus="Cortaritermes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="277" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fulviceps">
<emphasis id="FDFAEAA70B7BFFDCCFB45477FEE2FEBC" box="[151,277,290,313]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="277">C. fulviceps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has precedence and should be treated as the valid name of this species.
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