Table 1.
Summary of taxonomic literature that provide morphology and life history information on Reticulitermes spp. found in the southeastern United States, parenthetical letters are defined as follows: a = alate, s = soldier, species abbreviations are defined as follows: Rf = R. flavipes, Rv = R. virginicus, Rh = R. hageni, Rm = R. malletei, Ra = R. arenincola, Rhp = R. hesperus, Rt = R. tibialis.
| Reference citation | Caste, notes | Pages | Species from USA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banks, N. & Snyder, T.E. (1920) | (a, s) descriptions, illustrations, key, flight times | 42–47, 148–164 | Rf, Rv, Rh, Rhp, Rt |
| Goellner, E. J. (1931) | (a, s) descriptions, illustrations, ecology | 227–234 | Rf, Rt, Ra |
| Kofoid, C.A. (1934) | (a), descriptions, flight times | 193–194 | Rf, Rv, Rh, Ra, Rhp, Rt |
| Miller, E.M. & Miller, D.B. (1943) | (a, s) descriptions, illustrations, flight times | 101–107 | Rf, Rv, Rh |
| Banks, F.A. (1946) | (a, s) descriptions, illustrations, key, flight times | 1–29 | Rf, Rv, Ra, Rt |
| Miller E.M. (1949) | (a, s) descriptions, illustrations, key, flight times | 6–7, 14–15, 20–22, 26 | Rf, Rv, Rh |
| Snyder, T.E. (1954) | (a, s) descriptions, illustrations, key, flight times | 26, 51–56 | Rf, Rv, Rh, Ra |
| Miller E. M. (1964) | (a) flight times | 5, 16 | Rf, Rv, Rh |
| Weesner, F.M. (1965) | (a) descriptions, illustrations, key, flight times | 36–44, 51 | Rf, Rv, Rh, Ra, Rhp, Rt |
| Clément, J.L., Howard, R., Blum, M. & Lloyd, H. (1986) | (a, s) descriptions, life history | 67–70 | Rf, Rv, Rh, Rm |
| Nutting, W.L. (1990) | (a, s) descriptions, illustrations, key, flight times | 997–1030 | Rf, Rv, Rh, Ra, Rhp, Rt |
| Scheffrahn RH, Su N-Y. (1994) | (a, s) descriptions, illustrations, key, flight times | 465–473 | Rf, Rv, Rh |
| Hostettler, N.C., Hall, D.W. & Scheffrahn, R.H. (1995) | (s) descriptions, photographs | 119–129 | Rf, Rv, Rh |
| Ye, W., Lee, C.-Y., Scheffrahn, R.H., Aleong, J.M., Su, N.-Y., Bennett, G.W., Scharf, M.E., (2004) | (s) descriptions, photographs | 815–822 | Rf, Rv, Rh, Ra |
| Brown, K., Kard, B. & Payton, M. (2005) | (a, s) descriptions, photograph | 277–284 | Rf, Rv, Rh |
| Austin, J.W., Bagnères, A.-G., Szalanski, A.L., Scheffrahn, R.H., Heintschel, B.P., Messenger, M.T., Clement, J.-L. & Gold, R.E. (2007) | (a, s) descriptions, illustrations, photographs, flight times | 1–26 | Rf, Rv, Rh, Rm, Ra, Rhp, Rt |
| Wang, C., Zhou, X., Li, S., Schwinghammer, M., Scharf, M., Buczkowski, G. & Bennett, G. (2009) | (a, s) descriptions, key, photographs | 1029–1036 | Rf, Rv, Rh, Ra, Rt |