Genus Gastrotermes · 胃白蚁属
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About the genus
This genus belongs to the family Termitidae 白蚁科, in the subfamily Apicotermitinae 尖白蚁亚科; the site records 1 species.
Type species: Gastrotermes spinatus.
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Etymology
From Greek gastēr (belly) + 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 mixed segment is absent, P1 is very short, and the EVS is large and trilobed, on which basis the genus is placed in the Apicotermes group. It differs from the other genera of the Labidotermes subgroup in that the inner wall of the EVS bears small erect spines and the opening of P3a is lined with stout spines. The alate is unknown; the soldier is unknown (the source records Soldier. Unknown, but may exist).
Worker
The head, pronotum and abdomen are densely covered with several hundred long to very long hairs.
Sources: Scheffrahn R. H. 2020. Gastrotermes spinatus gen. n. sp. n., an African soil-feeding termite described from the worker caste (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitidae). Zootaxa 4789(1): 291–296. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.12, p. 291（Gastrotermes gen. nov.：Description / Diagnosis） This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.
Species (1)
- Gastrotermes spinatus Scheffrahn, 2020 多刺胃白蚁 ★ Type species
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