Genus Jugositermes · 岗白蚁属

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 steeply inclined (about 45°), with two distinct ridges above the antennal bases, the antennal bases set at one end of a groove; left mandible with a small tooth; both mandibles short and very broad, distinctly broader than in the closely related Apicotermes and Allognathotermes; frontal gland opening present but only dot-like and inconspicuous; labrum extremely small; sides of the head parallel; antennae 15-segmented; fore tibia with 3 apical spurs, mid and hind tibiae with 2 apical spurs; no pulvillus between the tarsal claws; fore coxa with a large, conspicuous tooth-like process. Type species Jugositermes tuberculatus.

Soldier

Head red-yellow-brown, darker anteriorly, a dark longitudinal line running from the middle of the head backwards; head rectangular, sides parallel, posterior margin rounded; the two ridges above the antennal bases distinct, the lower ridge weaker, the antennal bases set at one end of a groove; frons steeply inclined at about 45°; a small wart-like tubercle on each side of the median line of the vertex, visible in profile; head surface sparsely setose, with more setae on the sides below the antennae; antennae 15-segmented, segment 3 extremely short, shorter than segment 4, segment 4 shorter than segment 2; labrum very small, ligulate, inconspicuous; mandibles large and broad, proportionally short, the inner marginal teeth of both very short; frontal gland opening only dot-like, slightly in front of the median line; pronotal margins with numerous long setae, the anterior margin also with short hairs; pronotum narrower than the head, saddle-shaped, the sides rather straight and narrowing posteriorly, the posterior margin deeply concave with rounded angles, the anterior margin concave, with a longitudinal groove in the middle; fore coxa with a large, conspicuous tooth-like process on its anterior side.

Sources: Emerson, A. E. 1928. Termites of the Belgian Congo and the Cameroon. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 57: 401–574., pp. 501–502 This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.