Genus Ampoulitermes · 安瓿白蚁属
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About the genus
This genus belongs to the family Termitidae 白蚁科, in the subfamily Nasutitermitinae 象白蚁亚科; the site records 2 species.
Type species: Ampoulitermes wynaadensis.
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Etymology
From Latin ampulla (flask) + 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
Monotypic genus of Nasutitermitinae; soldier head capsule dark brown to chocolate brown, pear-shaped, strongly constricted behind the antennae, posterior margin concave at the middle, nasus long and cylindrical, antennae 12-segmented, mandibles reduced, laterally bluntly pointed; pronotum small, saddle-shaped, with a notch at the middle of the anterior margin. Worker antennae 13–14-segmented, molar plate of left mandible weakly projecting, level with the second marginal tooth.
Soldier
Head capsule dark brown to chocolate brown, pear-shaped, strongly constricted behind the antennae, posterior margin concave at the middle; nasus long, cylindrical; antennae 12-segmented, segments short, segment 3 longer and narrower than segment 2; mandibles reduced, laterally bluntly pointed; pronotum small, saddle-shaped, with a notch at the middle of the anterior margin; tibial apical spurs 2:2:2, tarsi 4-segmented; abdomen hairy, with short and long hairs; cerci 2-segmented.
Worker
Head capsule yellowish brown to brown, subcircular; coronal suture present; frontal plate elongate, white; antennae 13–14-segmented; postclypeus moderately raised, less than half as long as wide; left mandible with an apical tooth and 2 marginal teeth, the apical tooth and first marginal tooth both pointed and nearly equal in length, the angle between them acute; second marginal tooth short, separated from the first marginal tooth by the long posterior margin of the first marginal tooth; molar plate (basal process) weakly projecting, level with the second marginal tooth; right mandible with the apical tooth and first marginal tooth as on the left, second marginal tooth short with a nearly straight posterior margin, molar plate longer than the posterior margin of the second marginal tooth; pronotum saddle-shaped; legs and abdomen as in the soldier.
Sources: Chhotani, O. B. 1997. The Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries: Isoptera (Termites), Volume II (Family Termitidae). Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, xx+801 pp., pp. 698–699 This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.
Species (2)
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