Genus Hydrecotermes · 海德瑞克白蚁属
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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 2 species.
Type species: Hydrecotermes arienesho.
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Etymology
Etymology uncertain; -termes from 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
Morphologically closest to Grigiotermes and Patawatermes but distinguished from them by the smaller worker and the unclerotised armature of the enteric valve; it differs from other Neotropical soldierless termites in the inflated P1, the short stout abdomen, and the oval, spineless enteric valve cushions.
Worker
Medium-sized, head width 0.6–0.8 mm; gut slightly inflated in the abdomen; head pale yellow and circular, with 50–200 setae but no microtrichia; enteric valve cushions oval, without spines or sclerotised armature.
Alate
Sclerotised body parts dark brown, densely covered with several thousand microtrichia; head with only a few long setae; compound eyes and ocelli large; fontanelle fairly large, at the level of the posterior margin of the compound eyes, appearing as a hairless spot.
Sources: Bourguignon T., Scheffrahn R. H., Nagy Z. T., Sonet G., Host B., Roisin Y. 2016. Towards a revision of the Neotropical soldierless termites (Isoptera: Termitidae): redescription of the genus Grigiotermes Mathews and description of five new genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(1): 15–35. doi:10.1111/zoj.12305, pp. 23–24（Hydrecotermes gen. nov.：描述起于 p. 23，Diagnosis 在 p. 24） This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.
Species (2)
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