Word: isoptera
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...definitive work on U.S. termites in 1935 (Our Enemy the Termite; Comstock Publishing Co., Inc.), the number of classified species had jumped to 1,915. Last week in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution was selling Snyder's latest work, a paperbound, 490-page publication entitled Catalog of the Termites (Isoptera) of the World-a revised classification of 1,932 species...
...course he was referring to termites, which are neither white nor are they ants. Generally yellowish or brownish in color, they belong to the insect order Isoptera which is only remotely related to the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps...
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