The Rhinotermitid Termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) of South Africa

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Family: RHINOTERMITIDAE

Subfamily: COPTOTERMITINAE

1. Genus: COPTOTERMES Wasman (introduced)
   1. C. amanii (Sjöstedt 1911)

      Eutermes amanii Sjöstedt 1911: 17
      Namibia, Zimbabwe, Malawi; Found in imported goods in Durban.

      
      
   2. C. curvignathus Holmgren 1913

      Coptotermes curvignathus Holmgren 1913: 77

      = Coptotermes robustus Holmgren 1913: 78
      Found in imported goods in Durban.

      
      
   3. C. formosanus Shiraki 1909

      Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki 1909: 239

      = Coptotermes remotus Silvestri 1927: 93
      Imported to Simonstown and Komatipoort; believed extinct at both sites.

      
      
   
   

   Subfamily: PSAMMOTERMITINAE

2. Genus: PSAMMOTERMES Desneux
   1. P. allocerus Silvestri 1908

      Psammotermes allocerus Silvestri 1908: 73

      = Psammotermes fuscofemoralis Holmgren 1913: 323 (nec Sjöstedt)
      Western Cape, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Province, Northwetrsern Province and Northern Cape, to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola.

      
      
   
   

   Subfamily: RHINOTERMITINAE

3. Genus: SCHEDORHINOTERMES Silvestri 1926
   1. S. lamanianus (Sjöstedt 1911)

      Rhinotermes lamanianus Sjöstedt 1911: 141

      = Rhinotermes lamanianus var angulatus Emerson 1928: 429-430

      = Rhinotermes baequertianus Sjöstedt 1913: 357

      = Schedorhinotermes putorius var australis Fuller 1921: 51-52

      = Rhinotermes (Schedorhinotermes) putorius Sjöstedt **

      ?= Schedorhinotermes provisorius Gresséž 1937: 20-23.
      KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Mpumalanga and Northern Province, to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia and east Africa.