The generic name Reticulitermes Holmgren, 1913, for an economically important and universally known group of subterranean termites responsible for most economic damage in the Northern Hemisphere, was conserved by being given precedence over Maresa Giebel, 1856.
Reticulitermes Holmgren, 1913 (Insecta, Isoptera) given precedence over Maresa Giebel, 1856," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(2), 194-195, (1 June 2009). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v66i2.a10