Serritermitidae
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Serritermitidae is a group (family) of insects belonging to the order of termites. The family includes only a few species, which live in South America.
Appearance
These termites are much like family Rhinotermitidae, as they are related to. They may feel that the soldiers' jaws are sharply toothed on the inner side. At all stages the mandible strikingly sharp. The flying stages have forewings with only one lengdeåre, slightly ahead of the center of the wing. From this it affects numerous oblique veins to the wing trailing edge.
Habits
Tuen located in or on the ground. The mode of life resembles the much of the family Rhinotermitidae. Serritermes serrifer lives in the walls of the tufts of termites in the genus Cornitermes (Termitidae).
Prevalence
Serritermes serresi known from the states of Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso, Brazil. The two Glossotermes species are known only from the Amazon region of Brazil.
Systematic division
Real insects (Ectognatha), Dicondylia, Wings insects (Pterygota), Neoptera ("nyvinger"), Over Order Dictyoptera, Okay roaches (Blattodea), Under Order of termites (Isoptera), Family Serritermitidae, The genus Glossotermes Emerson, 1950 - Two species, Brazil, Glossotermes oculatus Emerson, 1950, Glossotermes sulcatus Cancello & De,