Table 1 Termite species encountered, their functional groups and feeding material where w = wood feeder, d-dung feeder, l = litter feeder, g = grass feeder and s = soil feeder (Uys, 2002; Dowes-Gromadzki and Spain 2003; Davies et al., 2015; Felicitas et al., 2018). U = non-encroached, I = encroached
Family | subFamily | Species | FG | U (no. of sites) | I (no. of sites) | Feeding material |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rhinotermitidae | Rhinotermitinae | Schedorhinotermes sp. | II? | 2 (1) | 7 (1) | w |
Termitidae | Macrotermitinae | Allodontermes rhodesiensis (Sjöstedt 1914) | II | 106 (5) | 168 (5) | w, d |
Ancistrotermes latinosus (Holmgren, 1912) | II | 148 (5) | 88 (5) | w, d, l | ||
Macrotermes sp. | II | 61 (4) | 38 (4) | g, d, l, w | ||
Microtermes sp. | II | 170 (5) | 146 (5) | g, w | ||
Odontotermes sp.1 | II | 62 (5) | 48 (5) | w | ||
Odontotermes sp.2 | II | 135 (5) | 79 (4) | w | ||
Nasutitermitinae | Rhadinotermes sp. | II | 5 (3) | 5 (4) | w | |
Trinervitermes sp. | I | 1 (1) | 7 (2) | g, l | ||
Termitinae | Amitermes sp. | III/IV | 21 (4) | 5 (2) | w, l | |
| Â | Cubitermes sp. | IV | 40 (5) | 64 (5) | s | |
Microcerotermes sp. | II | 17 (4) | 58 (5) | w | ||
| Â | Total no | N | 768 | 713 | Â | |
Total species | S | 12 | 12 | |||
Species richness | d | 0.45 | 0.46 | |||
Pielou’s evenness | J' | 0.24 | 0.29 | |||
Shannon diversity | H'(loge) | 0.34 | 0.40 | |||
Simpson’s diversity | 1-Lambda' | 0.15 | 0.19 | |||