R. Sengupta, R. Keloth, Amina Poovoli, J. Basak, K. Tyagi, P. Prasad
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ABSTRACT The subterranean, mandibulate termite genus Amitermes Silvestri (Blattodea: Isoptera: Termitidae) is hitherto known from India by only two species, Amitermes belli Desneux and Amitermes baluchistanicus Akhtar. This paper describes a new species Amitermes kavarattiensis Rituparna, Rajmohana & Amina sp. nov. collected from the Lakshadweep Islands, India. Morphological comparisons with both the known species are provided. A dichotomous key to identify all the five Amitermes species of Oriental region is also appended herewith. Additionally, three sequences of the partial fragment of mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene of the new species and five sequences of Amitermes belli have been generated for the first time. A phylogenetic tree with available sequences of Amitermes species is provided. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E9743114-7B9E-4AE4-8750-90F86FC49EEE
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Oriental Insects is an international, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the publication of original research articles and reviews on the taxonomy, ecology, biodiversity and evolution of insects and other land arthropods of the Old World and Australia. Manuscripts referring to Africa, Australia and Oceania are highly welcomed. Research papers covering the study of behaviour, conservation, forensic and medical entomology, urban entomology and pest control are encouraged, provided that the research has relevance to Old World or Australian entomofauna. Precedence will be given to more general manuscripts (e.g. revisions of higher taxa, papers with combined methodologies or referring to larger geographic units). Descriptive manuscripts should refer to more than a single species and contain more general results or discussion (e.g. determination keys, biological or ecological data etc.). Laboratory works without zoogeographic or taxonomic reference to the scope of the journal will not be accepted.
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