Belongs within: Isoptera.
The Hodotermitidae, harvester termites, are a basal family of termites that are specialised feeders on dried grasses. Reproductives of hodotermitids are distinguished from other termites by their lack of ocelli, with possible stem representatives recorded from the early Cretaceous (Grimaldi & Engel 2005).
<==Hodotermitidae | i. s.: UlmeriellaGE05 |--MeiatermesGE05 | |--M. araripinaGE05 | `--M. bertrani Lacasa-Ruiz & Martínez-Delclòs 1986RJ93 `--+--‘Valditermes’ brenanaeGE05 `--+--Carinatermes [Carinatermitinae]GE05 | `--C. nascimbeniGE05 `--+--Luteitermes priscaGE05 `--HodotermitinaeA50 |--+--Hodotermes Hagen 1853IVE07, F97 | | |--H. havilandiF97 | | |--H. mossambicusIVE07 | | `--H. viatorF97 | `--Microhodotermes viatorIVE07 `--AnacanthotermesIVE07 |--A. ahngerianusR02 |--A. militarisGE05 `--A. ochraceusA50
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[A50] Ahmad, M. 1950. The phylogeny of termite genera based on imago-worker mandibles. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 95 (2): 37–86.
[F97] Froggatt, W. W. 1897. Australian Termitidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21 (4): 510–552, pls 35–36.
[GE05] Grimaldi, D., & M. S. Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press: New York.
[IVE07] Inward, D. J. G., A. P. Vogler & P. Eggleton. 2007. A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of termites (Isoptera) illuminates key aspects of their evolutionary biology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 953–967.
[R02] Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2002. Class Insecta Linné 1758. The insects (=Scarabaeoda Laicharting, 1781). In: Rasnitsyn, A. P., & D. L. J. Quicke (eds) History of Insects pp. 65–69. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht.
[RJ93] Ross, A. J., & E. A. Jarzembowski. 1993. Arthropoda (Hexapoda; Insecta). In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 363–426. Chapman & Hall: London.