Genus Leucopitermes · 白脸白蚁属
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About the genus
This genus belongs to the family Termitidae 白蚁科, in the subfamily Nasutitermitinae 象白蚁亚科; the site records 4 species.
Type species: Leucopitermes leucops.
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Etymology
From Greek leukos (white) + Latin termes; further derivation uncertain.
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
Left mandible index 0.56 (worker); soldier mandibles with or without apical points; the genus that Emerson 1960 regarded as the most primitive in the Oriental Subulitermes branch, possibly allied to the Australian Occasitermes and the Madagascan Malagasitermes.
Soldier
Frontal process and vertex with very short microchaetae (not as long and dense as in Malagasitermes milloti); abdominal tergites with short hairs and setae (shorter than in Malagasitermes); head outline convex at the sides, the posterior part of the head not as high and broad as in Malagasitermes; a small but distinct constriction on the side of the head behind the antennal base; mandibles with or without apical points; pronotum anterior margin slightly concave, the angle between the anterior and posterior sections of the lateral pronotal outline nearly a right angle.
Worker
Left mandible index 0.56; the apical teeth of both mandibles only slightly larger than the 1st marginal tooth; the angle between the 1st marginal tooth and the apical tooth of the left mandible sharper, the angle at the cutting edge between the 1st marginal tooth and the reduced 2nd marginal tooth distinct, the notch before the 3rd marginal tooth broad and distinct, the 3rd marginal tooth broader; 2nd marginal tooth of the right mandible distinct, the angle between the 1st and 2nd marginal teeth slightly less than a right angle; molar plate outline of the right mandible nearly straight.
Sources: Emerson, A. E. 1960. New genera of termites related to Subulitermes from the Oriental, Malagasy, and Australian regions (Isoptera, Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae). American Museum Novitates 1986: 1-28., pp. 8-9 This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.
Species (4)
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