Annals of the Entomological Society of America (2003) 96, 828-833

Michael I. Haverty, Gail M. Getty, Lori J. Nelson and Vernard R. Lewis (2003)
Flight phenology of sympatric populations of Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in northern California: Disparate flight intervals indicate reproductive isolation among cuticular hydrocarbon phenotypes
Annals of the Entomological Society of America 96 (6), 828-833
Abstract: The diurnal flights of Reticulitermes spp. have been reported to occur in the spring and early fall in northern California. From the spring of 1994 until the fall of 2001, we collected hundreds of alates of Reticulitermes spp. cuticular hydrocarbon phenotypes CA-A/A' and CA-D during flights from multiple locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. As predicted, there were two flight seasons: one in the spring from February to May and one in the fall from October to December. The flights in the spring were made only by phenotypes CA-A/A'; those in the fall exclusively included phenotype CA-D. These disparate flight times indicate that reproductive isolation is complete and provide further biological evidence that phenotypes CA-A and CA-A' are variants of one taxon and are distinct from CA-D.
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Database assignments for author(s): Michael I. Haverty, Vernard R. Lewis

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution
identification/taxonomy

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Reticulitermes (genus)		U.S.A. (SW)