Anacanthotermes

Anacanthotermes is an Old World genus of termites in the Hodotermitidae. They are found in deserts and semideserts of North Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, including Baluchistan and southern India.^[1] Wings of the alates are glabrous and lack the microstructures like micrasters, microsetae or rods found in more modern Isoptera.^[2] In the driest and most arid locations in Africa it is generally replaced by Psammotermes.^[3]

Anacanthotermes
Anacanthotermes viarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Infraorder:	Isoptera
Family:	Hodotermitidae
Genus:	Anacanthotermes Jacobson 1905

Species

The genus contains some 13 species:^[4]

• A. ahngerianus (Jacobson)
• A. baeckmannianus (Vasiljev)
• A. baluchistanicus Akhtar, 1974
• A. iranicus Ravan et al., 1994
• A. macrocephalus (Desneux, 1906)
• A. murgabicus (Vasiljev)
• A. ochraceus (Burmeister)
• A. saudiensis Chhotani, et al., 1982
• A. septentrionalis (Jacobson)
• A. turkestanicus (Jacobson)
• A. ubachi (Navas)
• A. vagans (Hagen, 1858)
• A. viarum (König, 1779)