Overview
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Insect. This termite causes considerable damage to trees , buildings, telephone poles , and underground electrical and telephone cable lines . In Hawaii, the cost to prevent and/or control infestations and to repair the damage caused by this pest has been estimated at more than $60 million a year.
Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Formosan Subterranean Termite, Ground Termites
Common Names in French:
Termite Du Japon Du Sud
Description
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Physical Description
Species Coptotermes formosanus
A large subterranean colony of the Formosan subterranean termite may contain several million termites that forage up to 100 m. Winged forms (alates ) are yellowish-brown and 12 to 15 mm long (0.5 to 0.6 inch ). There are numerous small hairs on the wings . Soldier heads are oval shape .
Habitat
Biome: urban areas
Ecology: Causes severe damage to wooden components of a structure.
Biology
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Reproduction
Annual
flights of winged
forms.A single colony
may produce
tens of
thousands alates
. A matured queen may lay
2000 eggs
daily.
Eggs - larvae -workers or alate nymph - soldiers, workers or nymph
- queen and kings.
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Atelocerata
()
- Heymons, 1901
- Superclass:
Panhexapoda
()
- Epiclass:
Hexapoda
()
- Subclass:
Dicondylia
()
- Infraclass:
Pterygota
()
- Superorder:
Dictyoptera
()
- Order:
Isoptera
()
- Brulle, 1832
- Family:
Rhinotermitidae
()
- Subfamily:
Coptotermitinae
()
- Genus:
Coptotermes
()
- (Wasmann, 1896)
- Specific name:
formosanus
- Shiraki, 1909
- Form:
mite
- Scientific name: - Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, 1909
- Form:
mite
- Specific name:
formosanus
- Shiraki, 1909
- Genus:
Coptotermes
(
- Subfamily:
Coptotermitinae
(
- Family:
Rhinotermitidae
(
- Order:
Isoptera
(
- Superorder:
Dictyoptera
(
- Infraclass:
Pterygota
(
- Subclass:
Dicondylia
(
- Epiclass:
Hexapoda
(
- Superclass:
Panhexapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Atelocerata
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 11-Mar-2005
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Coptotermes
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
C. formosanus (Formosan Subterranean Termite)
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Further Reading
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- A collection of essays for Mr. Yasushi Nawa: written in commemoration of his sixtieth birthday, October 8, 1917 / Gifu, Japan: [s.n.], 1917. url p. 5.
- Cooperative economic insect report. Hyattsville, MD. [etc.]Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs Animal and Plant Health Service. url p. 10, p. 10, p. 1087, p. 1131, p. 12, p. 12, p. 12, p. 128, p. 135, p. 150, p. 18, p. 214, p. 222, p. 28, p. 316, p. 355, p. 364, p. 371, p. 395, p. 437, p. 458, p. 471, p. 530, p. 555, p. 563, p. 564, p. 578, p. 592, p. 6, p. 603, p. 604, p. 66, p. 671, p. 698, p. 7, p. 70, p. 710, p. 713, p. 75, p. 79, p. 9, p. 9, p. 9, p. 904, p. 907, p. 929, p. 967.
- Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 87, p. 89.
- Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 167.
- Extracts from the Bulletin of the Forest Experiment Station, Meguro, Tokyo. Tokyo, Bureau of Forestry, Dept. of Agriculture and Commerce, 1915. url , .
- Handbook of protozoology, by Richard Roksabro Kudo...with one hundred and seventy-five illustrations. Springfield, Ill., C.C. Thomas, 1931. url p. 168, p. 427.
- List of intercepted plant pests / United States Department of Agriculture, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.], 1932- url p. 118, p. 15, p. 16, p. 161, p. 17, p. 18, p. 19, p. 19, p. 191, p. 20, p. 22, p. 23, p. 23, p. 27, p. 28, p. 33, p. 34, p. 354, p. 36, p. 37, p. 38, p. 4, p. 4, p. 4, p. 4, p. 40, p. 41, p. 41, p. 43, p. 43, p. 43, p. 44, p. 45, p. 45, p. 45, p. 46, p. 46, p. 46, p. 47, p. 48, p. 53, p. 53, p. 54, p. 54, p. 57, p. 58.
- Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 155, p. 417, p. 419, p. 813, p. 95.
- Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. Honolulu: Hawaiian Entomological Society url , , , p. 264.
- Protozoology, by Richard R. Kudo. .. With three hundred and thirty-six illustrations. Springfield, Ill., C.C. Thomas, 1946. url p. 319, p. 326, p. 740.
- Protozoology, by Richard Roksabro Kudo... with two hundred and ninety-one illustrations. Springfield, Ill., Thomas[c1939] url p. 286, p. 652.
- Protozoology. Springfield, Ill., C. C. Thomas[1954] url p. 406, p. 414.
- Scientific Japan, past and present, prepared [by the National Research Council of Japan] in connection with the third Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Tokyo, 1926. Kyoto[1926?] url p. 117.
- The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 205, p. 208.
- The Hawaiian forester and agriculturist. Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Co., 1904-1933. url , p. 315, p. 316, p. 318, p. 319, p. 351.
- The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 160.
- The Philippine journal of science. 18 1921 Manila. url p. 226, p. 250, p. 256, p. 276, p. 319, p. 320, p. 321, p. 328, p. 333, p. 334, p. 335, p. 336, p. 337, p. 338, p. 339, p. 340, p. 341, p. 344, p. 347, p. 350, p. 353, p. 361, p. 370, p. 371, p. 372, p. 373, p. 379, p. 381, p. 382, p. 489, p. 491.
- The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng., etc.: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, etc. url p. 111, p. 190, p. 435, p. 599, p. 602, p. 748.
- The mammals of China and Mongolia / by Glover M. Allen. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1938-1940. url p. 1304, p. 517.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- ISSG Global Invasive Species Database (http://www.issg.org/database)
- National Invasive Species Information Center, National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. Web Site. Accessed May 3, 2008.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3509721
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-650469
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 650469
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 8963
