Biratermes robustus, Rocha & Cancello, 2022

Rocha, Mauricio M. & Cancello, Eliana M., 2022, Updated taxonomy of Syntermitinae (Blattodea: Isoptera, Termitidae), with the description of three new genera, Zootaxa 5138 (4), pp. 445-463 : 450

Biratermes robustus , new combination

Embiratermes robustus Constantino, 1992: 332–334 (soldier and worker), figs 4–6.

Type Material. Holotype, one soldier deposited at Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi ( MPEG), Belém, Pará state, Brazil, from Brazil, Amapá state, Serra do Navio, 02.xi.1989, R. Constantino coll. (not examined), and paratypes, soldiers, and workers from same holotype colony (examined).

Imago. Unknown.

Soldier and worker. As for the genus (see above). Additional figures of the soldier are presented ( Fig. 1 ) and the worker gut is described herein ( Figs 2 , 3 ).

Material examined. BRAZIL. Amapá: Serra do Navio , 02.xi.1989, R. Constantino (9545, paratypes soldiers and workers) .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Soldier of Biratermes robustus (paratype of Embiratermes robustus). a, head in dorsal view; b, in profile.

FIGURE 2. Worker gut of Biratermes robustus. a, gizzard: detail of first order pulvillus ornamented with conspicuous spines; b, enteric valve.

FIGURE 3. Worker gut of Biratermes robustus. a, dorsal; b, left (arrow: P2 position); c, ventral; d, right view; e and f, mixed segment and Malpighian tubules in detail (external and internal to the coiling) [crop (C), mesenteron (dotted area)].