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A new phytophagous termite from Saudi Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

W. V. Harris
Affiliation:
Colonial Termite Research Unit

Extract

Records of termites attacking growing crops in Saudi Arabia have so far referred to Microcerotermes diversus Silv., one of the subfamily Amitermitinae of the Termitidae (Ayoub, 1959). This termite is also known from the Yemen, the South Arabia Federation and Iraq.

Type
Research Paper
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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