Genus Ceratokalotermes · 角木白蚁属
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About the genus
This genus belongs to the family Kalotermitidae 木白蚁科; the site records 1 species.
Type species: Ceratokalotermes spoliator.
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Etymology
From Greek keras (horn) + kalos (beautiful) + 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
The alate is closest to Paraneotermes and Comatermes; it differs from Comatermes in lacking long, wavy setae on the head and pronotum; Paraneotermes has a distinct angle in the posterior margin of the first and second marginal teeth of the left mandible and lacks an arolium; the soldiers of both have short, strong mandibles, a very weak or absent dorsal frontal projection, and a pronotal anterior margin that is not deeply concave.
Alate
Dark brown; eyes small, about 0.25 mm in diameter, ocelli touching the compound eyes; antennae 13–14-segmented; posterior margin of the first and second marginal teeth of the left mandible equal in length to the anterior margin of the third marginal tooth; molar plate of the right mandible subequal to the posterior margin of the second marginal tooth; pronotum wider than the head, anterior margin concave; radial vein of the forewing usually branched, radial sector with 7–8 branches, the first branch about one-sixth of the wing length from the wing suture; media weakly sclerotised, closer to the radial sector; arolium present.
Soldier
Head somewhat frontal-shield-like, narrow, sides parallel; antennal carinae large and distinctly projecting; frons concave, steeply sloping to the clypeus; anterior dorsum with two large swellings or lobes, the space between them evenly arcuate; eyes colourless; antennae 11–14-segmented, the third segment unspecialised and subequal to the second; mandibles long and slender; pronotum as wide as the head, transversely arched, anterior margin raised with a deep angular concavity and a median notch; legs short and stout.
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., pp. 338–341 This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.
Species (1)
- Ceratokalotermes spoliator Hill, 1932 掠夺角木白蚁 ★ Type species
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