Tiputini Termites
Along with all those billions of ants I collected from Tiputini Biodiversity Station, I also collected some termites. Why? To see if there was a correlation between ant diversity and termite diversity. Ants and termites have a variety of significant relationships with each other from predatory to mutualistic, and I wanted to see if one could influence the other. What do you think?
Below is a list of the termite species collected during ant collections from Tiputini. Termite identifications were made by Reginaldo Constantino.
Genus | species |
Anoplotermes | sp. 1 |
Anoplotermes | sp. 2 |
Anoplotermes | sp. 3 |
Anoplotermes | sp. 4 |
Armitermes | minutus |
Atlantitermes | sp. |
Coptotermes | cf. testaceus |
Cornicapritermes | sp. |
Cornitermes | sp. A |
Crepititermes | verruculosus |
Cylindrotermes | cf. nordenskioeldi |
Cylindrotermes | flangiatus |
Cylindrotermes | parvignathus |
Cylindrotermes | sp. (workers) |
Heterotermes | tenuis |
Nasutitermes | callimorphus |
Nasutitermes | ephratae |
Nasutitermes | guayanae |
Nasutitermes | intermedius |
Nasutitermes | llinquipatensis |
Nasutitermes | longirostratus |
Nasutitermes | sp. 2 |
Nasutitermes | surinamensis |
Neocapritermes | pumilis |
Neocapritermes | sp. (worker) |
Rotunditermes | bragantinus |
Ruptitermes | sp. |
Triangularitermes | triangulariceps |
Velocitermes | sp. |