Table 1 Termite species used as food or feed

Hodotermitidae

Hodotermes mossambicus (Hagen, 1853)

X

Botswana

[54]

Microhodotermes viator (Latreille, 1804)

X

South Africa

[38]

Kalotermitidae

Kalotermes flavicollis (Fabricius, 1793)

X

X

Brazil, Thailand

[25,38,51,59]

Rhinotermitidae

Coptotermes formosanus (Shiraki, 1909)

X

China

[25,38,57,98]

Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar, 1837)

X

Thailand

[20,25,38]

Reticulitermes tibialis (Banks in Banks & Snyder, 1920)

X

Mexico

[38]

Termitidae

Cubitermes atrox (Smeathman, 1781)

X

Indonesia

[25,38]

Labiotermes labralis (Holmgren, 1906)

X

Colombia

[25,53]

Macrotermes acrocephalus (Ping, 1985)

X

China

[25,38,57]

Macrotermes annandalei (Silvestri, 1914)

X

China

[25,57,58,98]

Macrotermes barneyi (Light, 1924)

X

China

[25,38,57,58,98]

Macrotermes bellicosus (Smeathman, 1781)

X

X

Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Angola, Zambia, Kenya, Guinea, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda

[4,20,23,25-28,33,34,38,42-47,49,75,80,81,88,96,103]

Macrotermes falciger (Gerstacker, 1891)

X

Zimbabwe, Congo, Benin, Zambia, South Africa

[20,25,38-40,48,49,54,77,103]

Macrotermes gabonensis (Sjoestedt, 1900)

X

Congo

[25,38]

Macrotermes gilvus (Hagen, 1858)

X

Thailand, Malaysa

[25,55,56]

Macrotermes herus (Sjoestedt, 1914)

X

Tanzania

[35,79]

Macrotermes lilljeborgi (Sjoestedt, 1896)

X

Cameroon, Guinea

[83,84,88]

Macrotermes michaelseni (Sjoestedt, 1914)

X

Malawi

[103]

Macrotermes muelleri (Sjoestedt, 1898)

X

Congo, Cameroon, Guinea

[36,37,83]

Macrotermes natalensis (Haviland, 1898)

X

Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Congo, Nigeria

[20,25,27,32,38,41,49,95]

Macrotermes nobilis (Sjoestedt, 1900)

X

Congo, Gabon, Cameroon

[36,37,83]

Macrotermes renouxi (Rouland, 1993)

X

Cameroon

[88,113]

Macrotermes subhyalinus (Rambur, 1842)

X

X

Angola, Zambia, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda

[23,25,28-31,34,38,39,43,56,58,76,78,79,88,92-94,103]

Macrotermes vitrialatus (Sjoestedt, 1899)

X

Zambia

[25,30,31,38]

Microcerotermes dubius (Haviland, 1898)

X

Malaysia

[25,56]

Microcerotermes serrula (Holmgren, 1912a)

X

Malaysia

[25,56]

Nasutitermes corniger (Motschulsky, 1855)

X

Venezuela

[25,53]

Nasutitermes ephratae (Holmgren, 1910b)

X

Venezuela

[25,53]

Nasutitermes macrocephalus (Silvestri, 1903)

X

Venezuela

[25,53]

Nasutitermes surinamensis (Holmgren, 1910b)

X

Venezuela

[25,53]

Odontotermes badius (Haviland, 1898)

X

South Africa, Zambia, Kenya

[25,30,38,47,51]

Odontotermes capensis (De Geer, 1778)

X

South Africa

[25,38]

Odontotermes feae (Wasmann, 1896)

X

India

[25,38,57]

Odontotermes formosanus (Shiraki, 1909)

X

India, China

[25,58,59,100,103]

Odontotermes kibarensis (Fuller, 1923)

X

Uganda

[103]

Odontotermes yunnanensis (Tsai & Chen, 1963)

X

China

[25,58,59,100]

Pseudacanthotermes militaris (Hagen, 1858)

X

X

Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

[25,30,44,77,88,90,103]

Pseudacanthotermes spiniger (Sjoestedt, 1900)

X

X

Congo, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda

[25,30,38,44,47,77,87,90,96,103]

Syntermes aculeosus (Emerson, 1945)

X

Venezuela, Brazil

[25,54,93]

Syntermes parallelus (Silvestri, 1923)

X

Colombia

[25,38,57,91,92]

Syntermes spinosus (Latreille, 1804)

X

Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela

[4,25,38,54,57,91,92]

Syntermes tanygnathus (Constantino, 1995)

X

Colombia

[25,53]

Termes fatalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

X

Guyana, Indonesia

[25,38]