| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda - Arthropods |
| subphylum | Hexapoda Blainville, 1816 |
| class | Insecta - Insects |
| subclass | Pterygota |
| infraclass | Neoptera Martynov, 1923 |
| cohors | Polyneoptera |
| order | Dictyoptera |
| suborder | Isoptera Brullé, 1832 - termites |
| family | Rhinotermitidae Froggart, 1897 - subterranean termites |
| subfamily | Psammotermitinae Holmgren, 1911 |
| genus | Glossotermes Emerson, 1950 |
| species | Glossotermes oculatus Emerson, 1950 |