Talk:Microhodotermes viator

Microhodotermes viator was nominated as a Natural sciences good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (August 16, 2024, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

W.R.J. Dean, Unpredictable foraging behaviour in Microhodotermes viator (Isoptera: Hodotermitidae): an antipredator tactic? Journal of African Zoology (1993)
J.M. Moore, M.D. Picker Heuweltjies (earth-mounds) in the Clanwilliam district, Cape Province, South Africa Oecologia, 87 (1991), pp. 424-432 (carbon dating; 4,000 year-old nest)
Noirot, C., 1995. The gut of termites (Isoptera). Comparative anatomy, systematics, phylogeny. 1. Lower termites. Annals de la Societé Entomologique de France 31, 197–226. (figured gut)
Coaton, W.G.H. 1981. Fossilised nests of Hodotermitidae (Isoptera) from the Clanwilliam district, Cape province. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 44 (2): 79–81. (describes nest and suggests ancestor built fossilized mounds)
Kirby, Harold. “Flagellate and Host Relationships of Trichomonad Flagellates.” The Journal of Parasitology, vol. 33, no. 3, 1947, pp. 214–28. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3273552. Accessed 5 July 2024. (Describes protozoan amoeba Gigantomonas herculea as parasitizing M. viator)
Coaton, W.G.H. 1958. The hodotermitid harvester termites of South Africa. Science Bulletin Department of Agriculture Union of South Africa (Entomology Series) (43) 375: iv + 1–112. (synonymy; types; ecology; biology; nest; termitophiles; distribution. Namibia; South Africa.)
Yamin, M.A. 1979. Flagellates of the orders Trichomonadida Kirby, oxymonadida Grassé, and Hypermastigida Grassi and Foà reported from lower termites (Isoptera families Mastotermitidae, Kalotermitidae, Hodotermitidae, Termopsidae, Rhinotermitidae, and Serritermitidae) and from the wood-feeding roach Cryptocercus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae). Sociobiology 4 (1): 1–120. (Describes flagellate protozoan relationship)
Johnson, R.A., and T.G. Wood. 1980. Termites of the arid zones of Africa and the Arabian peninsula. Sociobiology 5 (3): 279–293.
Uys, V.[M.. 2002. A guide to the termite genera of southern Africa. pretoria: ARC-plant protection Research Institute Handbook No. 15, 116 pp.] (figs. 52–57 show soldier, nest, and map)
Austin, J.W., A.L. Szalanski, and B.J. Cabrera. 2004a. phylogenetic analysis of the subterranean termite family Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera) by using the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase II gene. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97 (3): 548–555. (Phylogenic tree and pairwise distances)
Ohkuma et. al. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of Asian termites (Isoptera) of the families Termitidae and Rhinotermitidae based on mitochondrial CoII sequences. Molecular phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 701–710. (phylogeny)
Vohland, K., and J. Deckert. 2005. Termites (Isoptera) along a north-south transect in Namibia and South Africa. Entomologische Zeitschrift 115 (3): 109–115. (ecology; feeding groups; distribution. South Africa)
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A fact from Microhodotermes viator appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that scientists tested the age of an African termite's inhabited mound—and found it to be 34,000 years old?

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