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Containing group: Isoptera

Other Names for Termopsidae

• Dampwood termites

References

Broughton, R. E. 1995. Mitochondrial DNA variation within and among species of termites in the genus Zootermopsis (Isoptera, Termopsidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 88(2):120-128.

Engel, M. S. and K. Krishna. 2004. Comment on the proposed conservation of prevailing usage of Termopsidae Holmgren, 1911, Termopsis Heer, 1849 and Miotermes Rosen, 1913 (Insecta, Isoptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 61(3): 169-170.

Grimaldi, D. and R. Dong. 2003. A new name for Mesotermes Ren, a genus of Cretaceous termites (Isoptera: Termopsidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76(3): 536.

Grimaldi, D. and M. S. Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press.

Jarzembowski, E. A. 1991. New insects from the Weald Clay of the Weald. Proceedings of the Geological Association 102(2):93-108.

Kambhampati, S. and P. Eggleton. 2000. Phylogenetics and Taxonomy. Pages 1-23 in: Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology. T. Abe, D. E. Bignell, and M. Higashi, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht.

Krishna, K. and D. Grimaldi. 2000. A new subfamily, genus, and species of termite (Isoptera) from New Jersey Cretaceous amber. Pages 133-140 in Studies on Fossils in Amber, With Particular Reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey. D. Grimaldi, ed. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

Nel, A. and J.-C. Paicheler. 1993. Les Isoptera fossiles. État actuel des connaissances, implications paléoécologiques et paléoclimatologiques. [Insecta, Dictyoptera]. Cahiers de Paléontologie, CNRS Editions, Paris.

Thorne, B. L., D. A. Grimaldi, and K. Krishna. 2000. Early fossil history of the termites. Pages 77-93 in: Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology. T. Abe, D. E. Bignell, and M. Higashi, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht.

Thorne, B. L., M. I. Haverty, M. Page, and W. L. Nutting. 1993. Distribution and biogeography of the North American termite genus Zootermopsis (Isoptera, Termopsidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 86(5):532-544.