Termitidae: Macrotermitinae

Termes estherae Desneux, 1908: 390-394 []

Additional records in the literature:

• Holmgren 1911: 207 ["Termes estherae"]
• Holmgren 1912: 29, pl. 1: figs. 6a-b ["Termes (Macrotermes) Estherae"]
• Green 1913: 11 ["Termes estherae"]
• Holmgren 1913: 280 ["Termes estherae"]
• Holmgren 1913a: 94-96, pl. 3: figs. 4-6 ["Termes (Macrotermes) estherae"] []
• Fletcher 1917: 146 ["Termes estherae"]
• Holmgren & Holmgren 1917: 146 ["Termes estherae"]
• Snyder 1934: fig. 3B ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Snyder 1949: 211 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Roonwal & Pant 1953: 52 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Roonwal & Sen-Sarma 1956: 14 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Ahmad 1958: 93, 95, 97 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Becker 1962: 147, 151, 158, 160, 162, 163 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Becker 1962a: 361-363, 370, 373, 377, fig. 4 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Mathur & Thapa 1962: 55 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Roonwal & Chhotani 1962: 334 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Ahmad 1965: 37 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Roonwal 1970: 357 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Sen-Sarma 1974: 459 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Morimoto 1975: 57, fig. 28 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Sen-Sarma et al. 1975: 13, 39, 54, 65 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Roonwal 1978: 19 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Chhotani & Bose 1979: 22 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Chhotani 1980: 7, 41-43, fig. 13 ["Macrotermes estherae"] [] [fig:]
• Roonwal et al. 1980: 152, figs. 2A-D ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Thakur 1980: 123, 127 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Bose & Das 1982: 198, 200, 205, 212 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Maiti 1983: 18, 25, 89-91, fig. 28 ["Macrotermes estherae"] []
• Thakur 1984: 53 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Thakur 1985: 26, 28 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Bose & Das 1987: 105, 109 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Thakur 1989: 359 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Sudhakar & Veeresh 1992: 180-183 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Maiti & Saha 1993: 513, 520 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Maiti et al. 1995: 444-445 ["Macrotermes estherae"]
• Basappa & Rajagopal 1996: 361 ["Macrotermes estherae"]

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