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