Odontotermes badius

Cubitermes umbratus is an example of a termite using the second type defense. Soldiers produce four diterpenes, biflora-4,10 (19)-15-triene (156) (522), cembrane A (157) and 3-Z-cembrane A (158) (521) and cubitene (159). More recently, isolation and identification of cube-gene (160), a diterpene with a novel carbon skeleton from C. ugandensis soldiers, has been reported (539). Odontotermes badius also bites with... 

Wood, W.F., W. Truckenbrodt and J. Meinwald Chemistry of the Defensive Secretion from the African Termite Odontotermes badius. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 68, 359-360 (1975). 

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