University of Florida Termite Collection (UFTC)

Curated by Rudolf Scheffrahn

Created March 2019

For more on U.S. termites and damage please go to my other website below

CO1 Bayesian Tree by Tiago Carrijo
(Updated 8 DEC 21)

Click for Tree

https://www.rudolfscheffrahn.com/

BOLD CO1 sequences 200+ bp

UFTC collection database
46,050 colony samples
(Updated 21 SEP 22)

West Indies Cryptotermes revision 1999

1999 Publication

High Res. SEMs

Click for database (.xlsx)

Expedition Summary 1990-2014

Collection Locality Map

Dr. Jan Šobotník's photographs of live termites

Brazilian Termitologists' website: Carrijo, Constantini et al.

Termites of Florida, the U.S., and Neotropics expeditions

Rudolf H. Scheffrahn publications on Google Scholar

Rudolf H. Scheffrahn taxonomic publications

Rudolf H. Scheffrahn first taxonimic publication 1983

Species by genera*

The soldier caste possesses the most robust and diagnostic external characters for termite identification. Unlike imagos, soldiers are present year around although is some species they are rare. In the soldierless species of the Apicotermitinae or when a soldier is not collected, the worker enteric valve is the single most diagnostic morphological character. In some cases, the external morphology of workers in soldierless taxa is useful for identification

For higher taxominic classification of genera, click here for Dr. Constantino's termite catalog

Dicuspidi - Duplidenti

* I thank Liam Lynch and Hollis Woodard for generating many of photographs taken after 2011.

Enteric valves by genera*

No soldiers are known for the Apicotermitinae with the exception of the Apicotermes group (all from tropical Africa) and the Speculitermes group (all from Asia). HW = worker head width (mm).

xEstrella - xMangoldi

xSemiquama - xStriati

* All names preceded by an "x" are preliminary names and cannot be used until I or someone else describe these taxa. I thank Dr. Ebenezer Onagbola for generating many of these photographs.

In the process of dissecting the termite gut to remove the enteric valve,

I have run across some interesting organisms, especially nematodes. I thank Dr. Rob Giblin-Davis for giving me an appreciation for these roundworms.

Nematodes etc.

University of Florida Termite Collection (UFTC)

Curated by Rudolf Scheffrahn

Created March 2019

For more on U.S. termites and damage please go to my other website below

CO1 Bayesian Tree by Tiago Carrijo (Updated 8 DEC 21)

UFTC collection database 46,050 colony samples (Updated 21 SEP 22)

West Indies Cryptotermes revision 1999

Collection Locality Map

Species by genera*

* I thank Liam Lynch and Hollis Woodard for generating many of photographs taken after 2011.

Enteric valves by genera*

No soldiers are known for the Apicotermitinae with the exception of the Apicotermes group (all from tropical Africa) and the Speculitermes group (all from Asia). HW = worker head width (mm).

* All names preceded by an "x" are preliminary names and cannot be used until I or someone else describe these taxa. I thank Dr. Ebenezer Onagbola for generating many of these photographs.

In the process of dissecting the termite gut to remove the enteric valve,

I have run across some interesting organisms, especially nematodes. I thank Dr. Rob Giblin-Davis for giving me an appreciation for these roundworms.

CONTACT

Rud

CO1 Bayesian Tree by Tiago Carrijo
(Updated 8 DEC 21)

UFTC collection database
46,050 colony samples
(Updated 21 SEP 22)