Genus Furculitermes · 叉白蚁属

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.

Alate

Head broadly oval, the surface smooth, with fine sculpturing only around the fontanelle; fontanelle elongate, set in a short, narrow depression on the head surface; vertex gently and evenly convex between the ocelli; compound eyes rather flat, of medium size, their distance from the lower margin of the head slightly less than one third of their diameter.

Soldier

Labrum large, its two lateral lobes forked and rather narrow, the apex rounded or slightly truncate, projecting beyond the mandibular marginal teeth when extended; the anterior margin of the labrum is deeply concave — the genus name is taken from the forked labrum.

Worker

The apical mandibular teeth are relatively large; the second marginal tooth of the right mandible is lost; among related genera this pattern is similar only in Euchilotermes, Ophiotermes, Tuberculitermes and Spinitermes.

Sources: Emerson, A. E. 1960. Six new genera of Termitinae from the Belgian Congo (Isoptera, Termitidae). American Museum Novitates 1988: 1–24., pp. 3–4（Nitiditermes 有翅成虫）; Emerson, A. E. 1960. Six new genera of Termitinae from the Belgian Congo (Isoptera, Termitidae). American Museum Novitates 1988: 1–24., p. 20（Furculitermes 兵蚁）; Emerson, A. E. 1960. Six new genera of Termitinae from the Belgian Congo (Isoptera, Termitidae). American Museum Novitates 1988: 1–24., p. 20（Furculitermes 工蚁） This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.