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Drywood Termites
Kalotermitidae
Kalotermitidae (drywood termites), are a basal family with a roughly cosmopolitan circumtropical distribution. With 21 genera and 419 species, it is the second most diverse termite family after the Termitidae. The majority of members are functionally specialists of sound wood - though not necessarily dry wood. Hence, while not all Kalotermitidae taxa are commonly referred to as drywood termites, the name is commonly used to refer to the family itself. The family contains notable pest taxa such as Cryptotermes brevis and Incisitermes minor.
19 branches of this family, most-observed first
Incisitermes
genusIncisitermes
Kalotermes
genusKalotermes
Neotermes
genusNeotermes
Cryptotermes
genusCryptotermes
Rugitermes
genusRugitermes
Bifiditermes
genusBifiditermes
Glyptotermes
genusGlyptotermes
Marginitermes
genusMarginitermes
Paraneotermes
genusParaneotermes
Calcaritermes
genusCalcaritermes
Pterotermes
genusPterotermes
Procryptotermes
genusProcryptotermes
Postelectrotermes
genusPostelectrotermes
Longicaputermes
genusLongicaputermes
Ceratokalotermes
genusCeratokalotermes
Comatermes
genusComatermes
Eucryptotermes
genusEucryptotermes
Epicalotermes
genusEpicalotermes
Tauritermes
genusTauritermes
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 143496.