{{Short description|Genus of termites}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Anacanthotermes viarum.jpg | image_caption = ''Anacanthotermes viarum'' | taxon = Anacanthotermes | authority = <small>Jacobson 1905</small> }}
'''''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.<ref name=evol>{{cite book|last=Abe |first=Takuya |title=Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology |year=2000–2002 |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |location=Dordrecht, The Netherlands |isbn=0-7923-6361-2 |pages=35–36|display-authors=etal}}</ref> Wings of the alates are glabrous and lack the microstructures like micrasters, microsetae or rods found in more modern Isoptera.<ref name=roonwl>{{cite journal|last=Roonwal |first=M. L. |title=Evolution and Systematic Significance of Wing Micro-sculpturing in Termites. XIII. Order Isoptera |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India |year=1983 |volume=B49 |issue=5 |pages=359–391 |url=http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005bbc_359.pdf |accessdate=5 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111100039/http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005bbc_359.pdf |archivedate=11 November 2013 }}</ref> In the driest and most arid locations in Africa it is generally replaced by ''Psammotermes''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://termites.myspecies.info/content/psammotermes |title=''Psammotermes'' |author=Bath, Rebecca |date=22 January 2009 |work=Termites of the World |accessdate=31 January 2014}}</ref>
==Species== The genus contains some 13 species:<ref name=biolib>{{cite web|title=''Anacanthotermes'' Jacobson, 1905|url=https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id128539/ |work=Isoptera |publisher=biolib.cz |accessdate=5 February 2013}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''A. ahngerianus'' <small>(Jacobson)</small> * ''A. baeckmannianus'' <small>(Vasiljev)</small> * ''A. baluchistanicus'' <small>Akhtar, 1974</small> * ''A. iranicus'' <small>Ravan et al., 1994</small> * ''A. macrocephalus'' <small>(Desneux, 1906)</small> * ''A. murgabicus'' <small>(Vasiljev)</small> * ''A. ochraceus'' <small>(Burmeister)</small> * ''A. saudiensis'' <small>Chhotani, et al., 1982</small> * ''A. septentrionalis'' <small>(Jacobson)</small> * ''A. turkestanicus'' <small>(Jacobson)</small> * ''A. ubachi'' <small>(Navas)</small> * ''A. vagans'' <small>(Hagen, 1858)</small> * ''A. viarum'' <small>(König, 1779)</small> {{div col end}}
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Category:Termite genera
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