Three new species of Rugitermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) from Peru and Bolivia

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Amboró National Park · Topics: Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Fossil Insects in Amber, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

The soldier of Rugitermes aridus sp. nov. is described from a xeric, termite-depauperate region of central Peru. Rugitermes rufus sp. nov. and R. volcanensis sp. nov. are described from soldiers and dealated imagos collected in a mesic forest of Amboró National Park in western Bolivia. The imago of R. rufus is unique among all described Rugitermes species in that the head capsule is reddish orange and the pronotum is brown. The imago head and pronotum are both brown in R. volcanensis. A phylogenetic and GMYC barcode analyses were performed with the COI gene. These analyses confirmed the three new species and revealed a high undescribed diversity of Rugitermes in the New World.

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