Ancistrotermes ganlanbaensis Zhu & Huang, 1991 橄榄坝钩白蚁

Recorded in Fauna Sinica

The morphological and biological accounts below are taken from Fauna Sinica and related literature; only structure and punctuation have been standardized here.

Morphology

Soldier

Head yellow, mandibles reddish brown with the basal third deep yellow, labrum pale yellow, antennae milk-white with a pale yellow ring at the front of each segment, pronotum, abdomen and legs pale yellow. Head with several scattered long hairs; the front and the lateral margins of the labrum transparent, with a pair of apical hairs and three to four pairs of hairs in longitudinal rows on each side; the margin of the pronotum with sparse long hairs. Head nearly square-rounded, widest in the middle; in profile raised like a hump in the middle of the head towards the front. Labrum tongue-shaped, its tip bluntly rounded. The front of the mandibles slender and curved inwards, each with a minute tooth-granule at the middle of its inner margin; the left basal tooth larger than the right, with a small tooth-granule within the concave edge of the basal tooth; a slightly larger denticle in front of the basal tooth of the right mandible. The widest part of the postmentum lies at the posterior third. Antennae with 15 segments, the third shortest. The middle of the pronotum depressed, the anterior and posterior parts slightly raised, the anterior and posterior margins concave in the middle. Small soldier: body and head colour as in the large soldier, except that the denticle within the concave edge of the basal tooth of the left mandible is slightly larger than that at the same site in the large soldier.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Jinghong, Yunnan, 500 m above sea level.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 347 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.