Structured Data

Machine-readable data is split by taxon; the entry point is data/index.json (full taxonomic tree with 6 clades, 13 families, 18 subfamilies, plus the complete file manifest). All 22 JSON files below are independently accessible and downloadable.

Archived dataset & DOI

All checklist records are also packaged as a citable archived dataset (3,071 records: one-row-per-taxon CSV, taxonomy JSON, synonym table, reference list, plus a DataCite 4.6 record and a CC BY 4.0 license). Download: downloads/isoptera-checklist-v2026.10.30.zip.

dataset/data/isoptera-checklist.csv — 3,071 taxon records (Chinese name, type locality, distribution, synonyms)
dataset/data/isoptera-taxonomy.json — full taxonomy tree (clade–family–subfamily–genus–species/subspecies)
dataset/data/isoptera-synonyms.csv — synonym table with type localities and alignment status
dataset/data/isoptera-counts.csv — counts by family/subfamily
dataset/data/isoptera-references.csv — 77 references (DOIs where available)
datapackage.json — field dictionary (Frictionless Data Package)
datacite-metadata.xml — DataCite metadata record
Dataset README — provenance, methods, fields, limitations, citation

DOI (version 2026.10.30): 10.5281/zenodo.23646836　Concept DOI (always latest version): 10.5281/zenodo.23646835

Citation (APA): Bennet Green. (2026). Checklist of extant Isoptera (termites): Latin scientific names with Chinese standard names (Version 2026.10.30) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23646836

Citation & export

The archived dataset is licensed CC BY 4.0 — please keep the DOI and the version number in any citation. Copy a format below, or import the metadata file into your reference manager.

Bennet Green. Checklist of extant Isoptera (termites): Latin scientific names with Chinese standard names (version 2026.10.30) [Data set]. Zenodo; 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23646836

@misc{extantisoptera20261030,
  author    = {班奈特格林 and Green, Bennet},
  title     = {Checklist of extant Isoptera (termites): Latin scientific names with Chinese standard names},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {2026.10.30},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}

Other imports: CITATION.cff (Zotero, GitHub “Cite this repository”), DataCite XML, dataset README (APA in Chinese and English, plus BibTeX).

By clade / family

Mastotermitidae — 1 genus · 1 species
Teletisoptera (Archotermopsidae / Hodotermitidae / Hodotermopsidae / Stolotermitidae) — 4 families · 8 genera · 37 species
Kalotermitidae — 23 genera · 479 species
Neoisoptera excl. Termitidae (Psammotermitidae / Rhinotermitidae / Serritermitidae / Stylotermitidae / Termitogetonidae / Heterotermitidae) — 6 families · 14 genera · 358 species

Termitidae (18 subfamilies, one file each)

Amitermitinae — 14 genera · 193 species
Apicotermitinae — 65 genera · 237 species
Crepititermitinae — 1 genus · 1 species
Cubitermitinae — 28 genera · 142 species
Cylindrotermitinae — 2 genera · 9 species
Engelitermitinae — 1 genus · 1 species
Foraminitermitinae — 3 genera · 10 species
Forficulitermitinae — 1 genus · 1 species
Macrotermitinae — 12 genera · 373 species
Microcerotermitinae — 2 genera · 150 species
Mirocapritermitinae — 14 genera · 132 species
Nasutitermitinae — 81 genera · 607 species
Neocapritermitinae — 3 genera · 20 species
Promirotermitinae — 2 genera · 39 species
Protohamitermitinae — 2 genera · 2 species
Sphaerotermitinae — 1 genus · 1 species
Syntermitinae — 22 genera · 105 species
Termitinae — 23 genera · 106 species

Search index & programmatic access

search-index.json — checklist search index (pinyin / traditional Chinese / synonyms, with the family field; generated by build_search_index.py)
data/name-issues.json — name discrepancies and review queue (issue type, external record links, match confidence; synonym_pairs gives, pair by pair, the relation between our name and the accepted name an external database claims (synonym / combination difference), the receiving-name direction (external / our name / undecided), each database's verdict and the recording status; species_authority powers the species-page lookup; also as CSV and a per-pair table)
sitemap.txt — every URL on the site, one per line
Subscribe: feed.xml (Atom) · feed.json (JSON Feed) · changelog.atom (release changelog)
Search discovery: opensearch.xml (add this site as a browser search engine; query URL /search/?q=…)

External authority cross-check

The "Other databases" block on every species page is generated by .github/workflows/build_authority_links.py, which queries the GBIF Backbone API, Catalogue of Life ChecklistBank API and Wikidata SPARQL (P225 taxon name) by scientific name. It only adds links and consistency hints — the checklist data itself is never modified. Current cache (fetched 2026-11-13): of 3089 names, 2963 link to GBIF (2955 accepted, 8 synonyms), 3008 link to Catalogue of Life, 2873 have a Wikidata item; 2898 agree with both accepted names, 191 carry a hint.

isoptera-authority-crossref.csv — the cross-check table (GBIF / Catalogue of Life IDs, statuses, accepted names, Wikidata QIDs and flags) for download and manual review.
Linking rule: GBIF links are emitted only when matchType=EXACT (or FUZZY with confidence ≥ 95) and the rank is species/subspecies, so higher-rank or low-confidence matches are never passed off as this taxon.
World catalogue: Blattodea Species File (cockroach.speciesfile.org, now including the former Isoptera Species File, built with TaxonWorks / TaxonPages) — auto-matched 2981 valid names and 1 synonyms; 61 ambiguous and 46 not found still need review. Entries on species pages say "auto-matched" until a human confirms them.
Structured data: species pages also emit schema.org Taxon + BreadcrumbList JSON-LD whose sameAs points at these external records and whose isPartOf links to the site Dataset entity.
data/references.json — Crossref-enriched data for the 77 references (DOIs, Crossref fields, GB/T 7714-style / APA / Vancouver citations, BibTeX / RIS / CSL-JSON).