Serritermitidae
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| Serritermitidae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Infraorder: | Isoptera |
| Parvorder: | Euisoptera |
| Nanorder: | Neoisoptera |
| Family: | Serritermitidae Holmgren, 1910[1] |
Serritermitidae is a family of termites belonging to the infraorder Isoptera in the order Blattodea.[2] The family includes only a few species, which live in South America.
These termites are much like the family Rhinotermitidae, to which they are related. The soldiers' jaws are sharply toothed on the inner side. At all stages, the mandible is strikingly sharp. The flying stages have fore wings with only one longitudinal vein, slightly ahead of the center of the wing. From this it affects numerous oblique veins to the wing trailing edge.
