Genus Crepititermes · 响白蚁属

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

Soldier frons flat, clearly different from the other groups of the genus Mirotermes (at that time a broad genus including this group); apart from this it is closest to the subgenus Mirotermes s. str.; mandibles snapping, of the same form as in Mirotermes s. str.

Alate

Head brown, broadly oval, densely covered with short hairs and setae; fontanelle slightly deeper than the rest of the head capsule, indistinct; left mandible with 2 large teeth (one pointed, one rounded), right mandible with only 1 pointed tooth; antennal segment 3 extremely short, much shorter than segment 4.

Soldier

Head pale yellow, covered with short hairs, elongate-subrectangular, the sides nearly parallel, abruptly narrowed in front of the antennal bases; antennae paler than the head, 13-segmented; labrum with 2 points; mandibles brown, slender, apex abruptly curved, base broad with teeth on the inner margin (more marked on the left mandible than on the right); pronotum paler than the head, saddle-shaped.

Sources: Emerson, A. E. 1925. The Termites of Kartabo, Bartica District, British Guiana. Zoologica (New York) 6(4): 291–459. doi:10.5962/p.190324, pp. 433–434 This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.