The Commission has conserved the usage of the specific name Cryptotermes dudleyi Banks, 1918 for an important economic termite pest species by giving the specific name dudleyi precedence over parasita whenever the two are considered to be synonyms.
Cryptotermes dudleyi Banks, 1918 (Insecta, Isoptera): precedence given over Calotermes havilandi parasita Wasmann, 1910 (currently Cryptotermes parasita)," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 69(4), 300-301, (1 December 2012). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v69i4.a19