Genus Noirotitermes · 努瓦罗白蚁属
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About the genus
This genus belongs to the family Termitidae 白蚁科, in the subfamily Syntermitinae 聚白蚁亚科; the site records 1 species.
Type species: Noirotitermes noiroti.
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Etymology
Named after the termite biologist C. Noirot; -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
Posterior part of soldier head with four conspicuous horn-like projections, the sides convex, the anterior half slightly constricted; head capsule shape highly distinctive, head surface with characteristic microsculpture; mandibles of the piercing type; body relatively small. Alate left mandible index 1.5, antennae 15-segmented, segment order 1>2>6>5=4>3.
Soldier
Posterior part of the head with four conspicuous horn-like projections, the sides convex, the anterior half slightly constricted; head capsule shape highly distinctive, head surface with characteristic microsculpture; mandibles of the piercing type; body smaller than in congeners.
Alate
Head brown, frons with a semicircular pale patch, fontanelle spot elliptical and also pale, ecdysial line pale. Postclypeus markedly inflated, anterior margin straight, posterior margin convex, midline distinct. Compound eyes round, medium-sized; ocelli large and distinct. Apical tooth of mandibles large, left M3 much shorter than M1; left mandible index 1.5. Antennae 15-segmented, segment order 1>2>6>5=4>3. Wing surface microsculpture almost absent, with fine punctures only on the proximal anterior part.
Sources: Constantino R. 2012. Description of the imago of Noirotitermes noiroti Cancello & Myles 2000 (Isoptera: Termitidae: Syntermitinae), with new records. Zootaxa 3174: 65-68. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3174.1.7, Imago（p. 66）；Imago（p. 66–67）; Rocha M. M.; Cancello E. M. 2022. Updated taxonomy of Syntermitinae (Blattodea: Isoptera, Termitidae), with the description of three new genera. Zootaxa 5138: 445-463. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5138.4.6, Comparisons with other genera of Syntermitinae（Biratermes 属征比较）; Rocha M. M.; Cancello E. M.; Carrijo T. F. 2012. Neotropical termites: revision of Armitermes Wasmann (Isoptera, Termitidae, Syntermitinae) and phylogeny of the Syntermitinae. Systematic Entomology 37: 793-827. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00645.x, Key to genera of Syntermitinae, couplet 14 This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.
Species (1)
- Noirotitermes noiroti Cancello & Myles, 2000 努瓦罗努瓦罗白蚁 ★ Type species
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