Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Dictyoptera
Ordo: Isoptera
Familiae (12): Archotermopsidae – Hodotermitidae – Kalotermitidae – Mastotermitidae – Rhinotermitidae – Serritermitidae – Stolotermitidae – Stylotermitidae – Termitidae – Termopsidae – †Archeorhinotermitidae – †Cratomastotermitidae

[source: Engel, Grimaldi & Krishna (2009: 10, table 3)]

Name

Isoptera Brullé, 1832

References

• Brullé, G.A. 1832. Expédition Scientifique de Morée. Section des Sciences Physiques. Tome III. Partie 1. Zoologie. Deuxième Section - Des Animaux Articulés 1–192.
• Beccaloni, G.W. & Eggleton, P. 2011. Order Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011: Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 199–200. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7 (online edition) PDF.

• Constantino, R. 2002. An illustrated key to Neotropical termite genera (Insecta: Isoptera) based primarily on soldiers. Zootaxa 67(1): 1–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.67.1.1 . Reference page. 
• Engel, M.S., Grimaldi, D.A. & Krishna, K. 2007. A synopsis of Baltic amber termites (Isoptera). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (B), (372) PDF.
• Engel, M.S., Grimaldi, D.A. & Krishna, K. 2009. Termites (Isoptera): their phylogeny, classification, and rise to ecological dominance.] American Museum novitates (3650) DOI: 10.1206/651.1 hdl: 2246/5969
• Engel, M.S. & Krishna, K. 2004. Family-group names for termites (Isoptera).] American Museum novitates, (3432) DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2004)432<0001:FNFTI>2.0.CO;2 hdl: 2246/2797
• Gay, F.J. 1976. Isoptera of the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand entomologist 6: 149–153. PDF.
• Inward, D., Beccaloni, G. & Eggleton, P. 2007. Death of an order: a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study confirms that termites are eusocial cockroaches. Biology letters 3: 331–335. PDF.
• Lo, N. et al. 2007. Save Isoptera: a comment on Inward et al. Biology letters 3: 562–563. PDF.

Vernacular names

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