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Stephen Luk | all galleries >> Entomology in Ecuador >> Tiputini Biodiversity Station (2011) >> Insects of Ecuador: Tiputini >> Dictyoptera of Tiputini, Ecuador > Silvestritermes sp. (Termitidae)
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04-MAY-2011

Silvestritermes sp. (Termitidae)

Tiputini Forest Reserve, Prov. Orellana, Ecuador

A soldier and worker side-by-side. Armitermes is one of a few unusual termite genera in which the soldiers are both mandibulate and nasute—possessing enlarged mandibles and a glue-squirting nozzle.

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