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Configuration of the digestive tube as an aid to identification of worker Termitidae (Isoptera)
Author(s) -
JOHNSON R. A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1979.tb00609.x
Subject(s) - termitidae , biology , identification (biology) , detritus , population , ecology , zoology , environmental health , medicine
. The appearance of the digestive tube in situ is shown to be valuable in the identification of worker termites, particularly those of detritus and soil feeding species. Genera, and sometimes species, can be identified by this character. These preliminary findings will be of assistance to termite ecologists interested in population studies, where problems of the identification of mixed samples containing workers from cores or other soil samples are a serious problem.