Greater antillean nasutitermitinae (Isoptera: Termitidae): Constrictotermes guantanamensis, a new subterranean termite from eastern Cuba

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 180-187

  Krěcěk, Jan ^a   Scheffrahn, Rudolf H ^a   Roisin, Yves ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Nasute; soldier; taxonomy; West Indies; worker

Indexed keywords

CONSTRICTOTERMES; CONSTRICTOTERMES GUANTANAMENSIS; ISOPTERA; NASUTITERMITINAE; RHINOTERMITIDAE; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 0029840581     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3495815     Document Type: Article

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