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A new phytophagous termite from Saudi Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

W. V. Harris
W. V. Harris
Affiliation:
Colonial Termite Research Unit
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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.

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Research Paper
Information
Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , December 1964 , pp. 479 - 481
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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