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      Echinotermes biriba , a new genus and species of soldierless termite from the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon (Termitidae, Apicotermitinae)

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          A new Apicotermitinae genus and species Echinotermes biriba is described from workers collected on the Andean-Amazon Piedmont in Colombia and Peru. The enteric valve armature of Echinotermes biriba Castro & Scheffrahn, gen. et sp. n. is a remarkably diagnostic character. A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis using the COI gene and including all other Neotropical Apicotermitinae genera, supports the new genus as a distinct terminal.

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          Effects of habitat fragmentation on Amazonian termite communities

          Valerie Brown, Og de Souza (1994)
          Intuitively, termites would seem to be a very suitable group to illustrate effects of ecosystem fragmentation. Being detritivores, they do not control directly the rate at which their resources are available, nor do they restrict the ability of the resources to regenerate. Consequently, termites do not mask the ecosystem depletion caused by fragmentation. With this in mind, we compared the communities of termites in undisturbed Amazonian forest with those of two isolated fragments nearby, aiming to show that the differences observed may have resulted from habitat fragmentation. Dissimilarities between communities in the undisturbed forest suggest natural patchiness in their distribution, which could lead to misinterpretation of the effects of fragmentation. Continuous forest had higher species richness and fewer rare species than the fragments. Guild structure in the forest was biased towards soil-feeding termites, which are subterranean and soft bodied, and therefore more sensitive to variation in microclimate. In the fragments, litterfeeders and species intermediate between soil-feeding and wood-feeding types were numerically more important. Habitats in the forest were more equally used than in the fragments, suggesting habitat unsuitability increased with fragmentation. It is suggested that the community composition of the fragments is a result of the intrinsic patchiness of the original forest and deterministic and stochastic extinctions caused by fragmentation. The need for manipulative experiments to test such ideas is discussed.
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            Catalog of the living termites of the New World (Insecta: Isoptera)

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              Termite Diversity along an Amazon-Andes Elevation Gradient, Peru

              Catherine Parr, Yadvinder Malhi, Cécile Girardin … (2011)
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Zookeys
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Zookeys
                Journal ID (publisher-id): ZooKeys
                Title: ZooKeys
                Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
                ISSN (Print): 1313-2989
                ISSN (Electronic): 1313-2970
                Publication date Collection: 2018
                Publication date (Electronic): 4 April 2018
                Issue: 748
                Pages: 21-30
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI, Avenida Vásquez Cobo Calles 15 y 16, Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia
                [2 ] Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, 3205 College Avenue, Davie, Florida 33314, USA
                [3 ] Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Rua Arcturus 03, Jardim Antares, 09606-070, São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil
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                Corresponding author: Daniel Castro ( danielkaz80@ 123456gmail.com )

                Academic editor: D. Evangelista

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                DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.748.24253
                PMC ID: 5904502
                SO-VID: 6f7f213f-f620-4503-890a-e4aafc07e1b3
                Copyright © Daniel Castro, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Tiago F. Carrijo
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                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                Date received : 5 February 2018
                Date accepted : 14 March 2018
                Categories
                Subject: Research Article
                Subject: Animalia
                Subject: Arthropoda
                Subject: Hexapoda
                Subject: Insecta
                Subject: Invertebrata
                Subject: Isoptera
                Subject: Termitidae
                Subject: Molecular Systematics
                Subject: Systematics
                Subject: Taxonomy
                Subject: Amazon Basin
                Subject: Americas
                Subject: Colombia
                Subject: Peru
                Subject: South America

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Animal science & Zoology
                Keywords: anoplotermes-group,enteric valve,neotropic,taxonomy,animalia,blattodea,termitidae
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Animal science & Zoology
                Keywords: anoplotermes-group, enteric valve, neotropic, taxonomy, animalia, blattodea, termitidae

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