Whereas lower termites are restricted mostly to woody tissue, higher termites have diverse diets consisting of wood, grass, leaf litter, fungi, lichen, faeces, humus and soil. Around 60% of species rely on soil-feeding alone.

Systematics

The family contains the following subfamilies:

: Family Termitidae Latreille, 1802
:: subfamily Sphaerotermitinae Engel & Krishna, 2004

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