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Cryptotermes (drywood termite)
Taxonomy
Cryptotermes was named by Banks (1906). It is extant.
It was reranked as Calotermes (Cryptotermes) by von Rosen (1913).
It was assigned to Calotermes by von Rosen (1913); to Kalotermitinae by Snyder (1949) and Pierce (1958); and to Kalotermitidae by Emerson (1969), Carpenter (1992), Nel and Paicheler (1993), Fontes and Vulcano (1998), Park and Downing (2001), Engel and Krishna (2007), Krishna et al. (2013) and Jouault and Nel (2022).
It was reranked as Calotermes (Cryptotermes) by von Rosen (1913).
It was assigned to Calotermes by von Rosen (1913); to Kalotermitinae by Snyder (1949) and Pierce (1958); and to Kalotermitidae by Emerson (1969), Carpenter (1992), Nel and Paicheler (1993), Fontes and Vulcano (1998), Park and Downing (2001), Engel and Krishna (2007), Krishna et al. (2013) and Jouault and Nel (2022).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1906 | Cryptotermes Banks p. 336 |
| 1913 | Calotermes (Cryptotermes) von Rosen p. 333 |
| 1913 | Calotermes (Cryptotermes) batheri von Rosen p. 333 |
| 1949 | Cryptotermes Snyder p. 359 |
| 1958 | Cryptotermes Pierce p. 19 |
| 1969 | Cryptotermes Emerson p. 52 |
| 1992 | Cryptotermes Carpenter p. 139 |
| 1993 | Cryptotermes Nel and Paicheler p. 123 |
| 1998 | Cryptotermes Fontes and Vulcano p. 279 |
| 2001 | Cryptotermes Park and Downing p. 179 |
| 2007 | Cryptotermes Engel and Krishna p. 269 |
| 2013 | Cryptotermes Krishna et al. p. 351 |
| 2022 | Cryptotermes Jouault and Nel p. 223 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Cryptotermes Banks 1906 [drywood termite]
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†Cryptotermes glaesarius Engel and Krishna 2007
†Cryptotermes pouilloni Jouault and Nel 2022
†Cryptotermes ryshkoffi Pierce 1958
†Cryptotermes yamini Krishna and Bacchus 1987
Invalid names: Cryptotermes batheri von Rosen 1913 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: base of the Hemingfordian to the top of the Holocene or 20.43000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian - Langhian | Dominican Republic | Cryptotermes glaesarius, Cryptotermes yamini (122982) Cryptotermes pouilloni (228917) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (California) | Cryptotermes ryshkoffi (144521) Cryptotermes sp. (106431) | |
| Holocene | Tanzania | Calotermes batheri (150372) |