Szh stereomicroscope

The distribution map (Fig. 1) was created from sample localities in the University of Florida Termite Collection (UFTC) database (Scheffrahn 2019, Table S1) and localities from Banks 1920 (link), Light 1930a , Light 1930b , and Nickle & Collins 1988 . Measurements (Fig. 2) were obtained using an Olympus SZH stereomicroscope fitted with an ocular micrometer. Preserved soldiers (Figs 3-5), stored in 85% ethanol, were positioned in a transparent petri dish filled with Purell® hand sanitizer (70% EtOH) and photographed as multi-layer montages using a Leica M205C stereomicroscope with a Leica DFC 425 module run with Leica Application Suite software version 3. Enteric valve armatures (Fig. 5) were mounted on slides with PVA mounting medium (Bioquip Products, Inc.) and photographed with a Leica CTR 5500 compound microscope using bright field lighting and the same montage software.

Figures were taken as multi-layer montages using a Leica M205C stereomicroscope with a Leica DFC 425 module run with Leica Application Suite version 3 software. Preserved specimens were taken from 85% ethanol and suspended in a pool of Purell® hand sanitizer (70% EtOH) to position the specimens over a transparent plastic Petri dish background. Measurements (Tables 123) were obtained using an Olympus SZH stereomicroscope fitted with an ocular micrometer. The field photograph of live specimens, placed in a filter paper-lined Petri dish (Fig. 3), were taken with a Canon EOS 6D camera combined with Canon MP-E 65/2.8 macro lens.
Material examined.

Specimens were field-preserved in 90% isopropanol and later transferred to 70% ethanol. Morphological studies were done using an Olympus SZH stereomicroscope and an Olympus BX50 compound microscope equipped with Nomarski optics. Gonopods were temporarily mounted on microscope slides in glycerine for study up to 400X magnification and drawings were made from these slides using a drawing tube on the BX50. For scanning electron microscopy (SEM), specimens were mounted on 12.7 mm diameter aluminum stubs, using double-sided carbon discs. These were sputter coated with a 40 nm thick layer of platinum and palladium, using a Leica EM ACE600 high vacuum sputter coater. SEM micrographs were taken with a FEI Quanta 600 FEG environmental scanning electron microscope. Photographs were edited and refined using GIMP, and plates were composed in InkScape.
Type specimens are deposited in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA, along with the SEM stub, WS36-15, to be deposited later. For synonymy and a detailed discussion of the genus, see Shear (2020 (link)Shear ( , 2021a)) . Diagnosis: This species cannot be confused with any other, due to the unique modification of the tarsi of male legpairs 5 and 6, which are enormously swollen and pyriform (Figs 3, 6, 7) .