Amitermes



Amitermes is a genus of termites in the family Termitidae. Species are found in a range of habitats including deserts and rainforests. Characteristics of Amitermes soldiers include a bulbous head, sickle-shaped mandibles with a single tooth on their inner margins and cephalic glands on the front of their heads.

Species
About one hundred species including the following species listed by the Encyclopedia of Life:


 * Amitermes beaumonti Banks, 1918
 * Amitermes coachellae Light, 1930
 * Amitermes conformis
 * Amitermes cryptodon Light, 1930
 * Amitermes darwini
 * Amitermes dentatus
 * Amitermes emersoni Light, 1930
 * Amitermes ensifer Light, 1930
 * Amitermes eucalypti
 * Amitermes evuncifer
 * Amitermes floridensis Scheffrahn, Su and Mangold, 1989
 * Amitermes germanus
 * Amitermes hastatus
 * Amitermes heterognathus
 * Amitermes laurensis
 * Amitermes lonnbergianus
 * Amitermes meridionalis
 * Amitermes minimus Light, 1932
 * Amitermes obeuntis
 * Amitermes pallidus Light, 1932
 * Amitermes parvulus Light, 1932
 * Amitermes parvus
 * Amitermes silvestrianus Light, 1930
 * Amitermes snyderi Light, 1930
 * Amitermes vitiosus
 * Amitermes wheeleri (Desneux, 1906)