Genus Anhangatermes · 魔白蚁属

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

The soldier head capsule is broadly rounded and the nasus conical-cylindrical, long and slender; the labrum is short and not visible in dorsal view; antennae 13 segments, extending slightly beyond the tip of the nasus; the pronotum is about half as wide as the head. The worker is monomorphic, with a large, rounded, ridge-less molar prominence on the left mandible, and the third marginal tooth of the right mandible is almost lost.

Soldier

Head capsule broad and rounded; nasus conical-cylindrical, long and slender; labrum short, not visible in dorsal view; reduced mandibles without apical points; antennae 13 segments, extending slightly beyond the tip of the nasus; pronotum about half as wide as the head; head almost bare, with only a few setae on the vertex and hairs at the tip of the nasus.

Worker

Monomorphic; head capsule rounded, widest in the anterior part; postclypeus moderately inflated; antennae 14 segments; few setae on the head; apical mandibular teeth well developed, the inner margin concave; the molar prominence of the left mandible large and rounded, without a ridge; the third marginal tooth of the right mandible reduced and almost lost, the molar plate concave.

Sources: Constantino, R. 1990. Anhangatermes macarthuri, a new genus and species of soil-feeding nasute termite from Amapa, Brazil (Isoptera, Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae). Goeldiana Zoologia 3., pp. 2-3 This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.