Reticulitermes virginicus
(Banks, 1907) · speciesAt a glance
Sources7 archives
Databases and archives Reticulitermes virginicus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility38 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI14 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics51 specimens↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Reticulitermes virginicus is a species of subterranean termite native to North America, found often in the southern United States.Su, Nan-Yao. "Native Subterranean Termites: Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar), Reticulitermes virginicus (Banks), Reticulitermes hageni Banks (Insecta: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)." IFAS Extension, University of Florida. It was described in 1907. Like all other termite species, R. virginicus is a eusocial species, characterized by individuals in a colony with overlapped generations cooperating in brood care and having reproductive division of labor. The adults that grow wings and fly from the nest to find a mate and start a new colony are called alates, or winged reproductives. In this species they are dark brown. Alates leave the nest between early February and late May. They prefer warm and sunny afternoons after rain. Like in all other termite species, all four of their wings are equal length. R. virginicus alates have wings about 0.3 in long with two visible, hardened and thickened veins.
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Compounds documented for Reticulitermes virginicus across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds39 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2S,3R,4R,5R,6S)-2-[(2S,3R,4S,5R)-4,5-dihydroxy-2-[3-hydroxy-5-[(Z)-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethenyl]phenoxy]oxan-3-yl]oxy-6-methyloxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3R,4S,5R)-2-[3-hydroxy-5-[(E)-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethenyl]phenoxy]oxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (E)-Resveratrol 3-glucoside | present | NPASS | |
| 1-((3-methylbutanoyl)phloroglucinyl)-beta-D-glucopyranoside | present | NPASS | |
| 1-[(2R,3aR,8bR)-4',6,6',8-tetrahydroxy-5-(3-methylbutanoyl)-3a-[[2,4,6-trihydroxy-3-(3-methylbutanoyl)phenyl]methyl]spiro[1,8b-dihydrofuro[2,3-b][1]benzofuran-2,2'-3H-1-benzofuran]-5'-yl]-3-methylbutan-1-one | present | NPASS | |
| 1-[2,6-dihydroxy-4-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-[[(2R,3R,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxymethyl]oxan-2-yl]oxyphenyl]-3-methylbutan-1-one | present | NPASS | |
| 1-[3-[(1S,2R)-1-[4,6-dihydroxy-7-(3-methylbutanoyl)-1-benzofuran-2-yl]-2,3-dihydroxypropyl]-2,4,6-trihydroxyphenyl]-3-methylbutan-1-one | present | NPASS | |
| 1-[4,6-dihydroxy-2-[[(2R,3'S)-4,4',6,6'-tetrahydroxy-7,7'-bis(3-methylbutanoyl)-2,2'-spirobi[3H-1-benzofuran]-3'-yl]methyl]-1-benzofuran-5-yl]-3-methylbutan-1-one | present | NPASS | |
| 3-methyl-1-[(2S,3'S,4'R,5'R)-3',4,4',5',6-pentahydroxyspiro[3H-1-benzofuran-2,2'-oxane]-7-yl]butan-1-one | present | NPASS | |
| CUJWFXHCPVQMHD-GFJLKBKBSA-N | present | NPASS |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Reticulitermes virginicus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type38 records
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions1 of 5 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| University of Alabamalocation not on record | 15 |
| University of Central Floridalocation not on record | 13 |
| Cambridge, US | 2 |
| CUlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of the South Pacificlocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Reticulitermes virginicus was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.