Psammotermes allocerus

Psammotermes allocerus is a desert living species of termites. The approximtley length of the soldiers are about 7 mm meanwhile the workers are about 5 mm long.

Identification
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Distribution
Psammotermes is distributed over the most arid parts of Africa. It replaces the species of Anacanthotermes in the most driest places.

Psammotermes Allocerus is though native to Namibia and nearby countries

Habitat

Psammotermes Allocerus is very well adapted to very dry places were most other athropods would not survive. The habitat of Psammotermes is therefore desert.

Defense
See: Termite Defense: 101

Diet
They are one of the most generalist feeders among termites. They eat almost any cellolouse-containing material, they eat dung from many different animals, roadside debris like carton boxes, dead grass, organic matter conatined in the dump of Hodotermes and Microhodotermes, dead bushes, logs and branches, fence, woodbuldings and so on.

Interactions with other organisms
Termitophiles

Castes
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Nomenclature
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