Genus Allotermes · 奇白蚁属
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About the genus
This genus belongs to the family Kalotermitidae 木白蚁科; the site records 3 species.
Type species: Allotermes paradoxus.
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Etymology
From Greek allos (other, different) + Latin termes.
The etymologies in this section are analytical breakdowns; the roots follow Brown (1956).
Morphology
The descriptions below are an adaptation of the original genus-level accounts; terms follow the meaning of the source, and the original is not transcribed verbatim.
Diagnostic characters
Closely related to Procryptotermes, but the soldier lacks a ridge between the frons and the vertex and has a club-shaped third antennal segment; the alate lacks an arolium.
Alate
Eye diameter about 0.35–0.36 mm, ocelli touching the compound eyes; bases of the first and second marginal teeth of the left mandible distinctly smaller than the third marginal tooth, their posterior margin about half the anterior margin of the third marginal tooth; pronotum slightly narrower than the head or as wide as the head; arolium absent.
Soldier
Head long and narrow, sides parallel, anterior part inclined downwards at about 45°; no ridge between the frons and the vertex; a weak angular projection anteroventral to the antennal socket; eyes distinct, pigmented in some species; antennae 10–12-segmented, the third segment dark, heavily sclerotised and long club-shaped; mandibles long, with a distinct basal tubercle, teeth reduced; pronotum as wide as the head, anterior margin broad and deeply concave, sides rounded.
Sources: Krishna K. 1961. A generic revision and phylogenetic study of the family Kalotermitidae (Isoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 122: 303–408., p. 358 This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.
Species (3)
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