Genus Rubeotermes · 变红白蚁属
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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 1 species.
Type species: Rubeotermes jheringi.
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Etymology
From Latin rubeus (red) + 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
Workers turn red in alcohol; the forecoxa bears several long, stout spines as large as the tibial spurs — on this basis they can be distinguished from all South American soldierless termites.
Alate
Compound eyes and ocelli medium-sized. Fontanelle very small. Pronotum semicircular in dorsal view, with several hundred setae. Posterior margins of mesonotum and metanotum rather concave, angles rounded.
Worker
Large, head width about 1 mm. White in life, turning red in alcohol. Head capsule densely covered with many small setae; fontanelle very small. Forecoxa with several spines as large as the tibial spurs; protibia slightly swollen. The connection between the mesenteron and the proctodeum is truncated, devoid of a mixed segment (original: Mesenteron and proctodeum connection truncated, devoid of mixed segment); enteric valve inserted into a trilobed enteric-valve seating.
Sources: Bourguignon T.; 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12305, Rubeotermes Bourguignon & Roisin, gen. nov. (genus treatment, pp. 27–30) This text is an adaptation, not a verbatim transcription of the original.
Species (1)
- Rubeotermes jheringi Holmgren, 1906 耶林变红白蚁 ★ Type species
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