Genus Nitiditermes · 净白蚁属

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, smooth and little undulate, with fine sculpturing 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

In lateral view the frons forms a bulbous swelling above the depressed fontanelle opening, its anterior part not extending over the mandible bases.

Worker

Mandibles similar to those of Cubitermes, Procubitermes, Noditermes, Lepidotermes and Mucrotermes; the apical tooth distinctly larger than the first marginal tooth; the distance from the apex of the left mandible to the tip of the first marginal tooth is greater than that from the tip of the first marginal tooth to the tip of the third marginal tooth.

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. 4（Nitiditermes 兵蚁）; Emerson, A. E. 1960. Six new genera of Termitinae from the Belgian Congo (Isoptera, Termitidae). American Museum Novitates 1988: 1–24., pp. 5–6（Nitiditermes 工蚁） This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.