Order Isoptera

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Order Isoptera
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Order Isoptera
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Isoptera (head)
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Isoptera (thorax abdomen)
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Isoptera (biology/ecology)
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Isoptera (biology/ecology)
worker

• Eusociality
• division of labor
• caste system
• reproductives, workers, soldiers
• cooperative brood care
• shared rearing of young
• overlapping generations
• long-lived reproductives
• short-lived workers

reproductive
soldier
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Isoptera (biology/ecology)
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Isoptera (physogastry)
head thorax
abdomen
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Isoptera (reproductives)
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Isoptera (workers)
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Isoptera (workers)
midgut
foregut
hindgut
gut symbionts here
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Isoptera (nests)
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Isoptera (nests)
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Isoptera (nests subterranean)
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Isoptera (nests subterranean-aerial)
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Isoptera (nests subterranean-aerial)
mound lobe
complete mound
cut grass
lobe cell
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Isoptera (nests subterranean-aerial)
magnetic termite mounds
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Isoptera (nests subterranean-aerial)
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Isoptera (nests aerial)
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Isoptera (soldiers)
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Isoptera (soldier defensive strategies)
head plugging
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Isoptera (soldier defensive strategies)
jaw dismembering
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Isoptera (soldier defensive strategies)
mandible snapping
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Isoptera (soldier defensive strategies)
chemical defense
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Isoptera (fauna)

• World Fauna
• 7 families
• ca. 2300 species
• North American Fauna
• 4 families
• Kalotermitidae
• Termopsidae
• Rhinotermitidae (lab)
• Termitidae (lab)
• ca. 45 species

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Isoptera Rhinotermitidae
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Isoptera Termitidae
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Order Isoptera
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Order Isoptera
isop0010 (left) Mastotermes darwiniensis (center)
Kalotermes rufinotum (right) Nasutitermes
exitiosus
A adult E egg L large or larva N
nymph NEO neotenic PS presoldier RN
reverted nymph S soldier W worker
CSIRO 1991335 (10)
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Order Isoptera
isop0008 (A) Porotermes adamsoni (B)
Macrognathotermes sunteri
CSIRO 1991334 (8)
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Order Isoptera
isop0012 termite nests
isop0011 termite mound
Essig 1942166 (12) Gullan Cranston 1994315
(11)
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Order Isoptera
isop0009 Nasutitermes exitiosus
CSIRO 1991332 (9)
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