Taxonomy ofHeterotermes(Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in south‐eastern Australia: cuticular hydrocarbons of workers, and soldier and alate morphology

摘要

AbstractHeterotermes ferox(Froggatt) auctt. is shown to be a complex of species, each characterized by the composition of cuticular hydrocarbons in the worker, by canonical variate scores calculated from eight measurements of the soldier, and by small differences in the size and shape of the alate.H.feroxis redefined and two species are described,H.brevicatenasp.n. andH.longicatenasp.n.