Stylotermitidae is a family of
termite
Termites are small insects that live in colonies and have distinct castes (eusocial) and feed on wood or other dead plant matter. Termites comprise the infraorder Isoptera, or alternatively the epifamily Termitoidae, within the order Blattode ...
s in the order
Blattodea
Blattodea is an order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites. Formerly, termites were considered a separate order, Isoptera, but genetic and molecular evidence suggests they evolved from within the cockroach lineage, cladistically ...
. There are two extinct and one extant genera in Stylotermitidae, with more than 50 described species.
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Genera
These three genera belong to the family Stylotermitidae:
* '' Stylotermes'' Holmgren, 1917
* † '' Parastylotermes'' Snyder & Emerson, 1949
* † '' Prostylotermes'' Engel & Grimaldi, 2011
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Termites
Blattodea families
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