Neotermes costaseca: a new termite from the coastal desert of Peru and the redescription of N. chilensis (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae)

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: New species · Topics: Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and animal studies, Fossil Insects in Amber

The imago and soldier castes of a new Neotermes species, N. costaseca, are described. It is only the third termite species known from the Pacific coastal desert of Peru. Neotermes costaseca sp. n. is compared with the allopatric Neotermes chilensis from the arid central and southern coastal plain of Chile.

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