Ancistrotermes hekouensis 河口钩白蚁
- Type locality
- China: Yunnan Province: Yao Autonomous County of Hekou
- Distribution
- Yunnan (Hekou 110m)
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Summary
Ancistrotermes hekouensis is a species of the genus Ancistrotermes, in the family TERMITIDAE (subfamily Macrotermitinae). The species was described by Zhu & Wang in 1991; the type locality is China: Yunnan Province: Yao Autonomous County of Hekou. Distribution: Yunnan (Hekou 110m).
Etymology
Genus name Ancistrotermes: From Greek ankistron (hook) + Latin termes.
Specific epithet hekouensis: Named after the locality Hekou
Taxonomic position
- Family: TERMITIDAE — 280 genera, 2144 species
- Subfamily: Macrotermitinae — 12 genera, 373 species
- Genus: Ancistrotermes — 16 species
- Type species of the genus: Ancistrotermes crucifer
Distribution
- Distribution records: Yunnan (Hekou 110m)
The record above follows the wording of the original data; no geocoding or standardized place names have been applied.
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
The large soldier is deep yellow in body colour, with a pair of apical hairs at the front of the labrum and four to five pairs of hairs in longitudinal rows on each side. Head round, widest in the middle; labrum nearly triangular, its tip bluntly rounded; each mandible with a minute tooth-granule at the middle of its inner margin; the small tooth in front of the basal tooth of the right mandible larger than the pointed process of the basal tooth of the left mandible; postmentum raised, widest in the middle. Antennae with 16 segments, the fourth shortest. The sides of the pronotum slightly broadly rounded, the anterior margin concave in the middle, the posterolateral margins contracted, the posterior margin slightly concave in the middle. Small soldier: body and head colour paler than in the large soldier, the antennal colour similar, the morphology of all parts similar to that of the large soldier, except that the inner margin of the basal tooth of the left mandible bears one small tooth and one minute pointed process, whereas the corresponding site in the large soldier bears only one minute pointed process.
Alate
Worker
Nymph
Abstract (from the source)
The major soldier of Ancistrotermes hekouensis is deep yellow with a round head widest at the middle and an almost triangular labrum. Each mandible carries a minute denticle at the middle of its inner edge, and the small tooth before the right basal tooth is larger than the pointed process of the left mandible. The postmentum is arched and widest centrally, antennae have 16 segments with the fourth shortest, and the pronotum is rounded at the sides with a notched front margin. Minor soldiers are paler, differing in dentition.
Biology
Distribution and locality
Hekou, Yunnan, 110 m above sea level.
Taxonomic notes
Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 348 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.
Distribution map
No GBIF record with coordinates was found for this species.
Related papers
Cached papers for this genus (matched automatically, for reference); to search this species with its junior synonyms merged in, use the literature search.
- Chemical Defence in the Termite Ancistrotermes cavithorax
Abstract
- A Termitomyces on the fungus stones of an African Ancistrotermes.
Abstract
- Chemical defence in the termite Ancistrotermes cavithorax: ancistrodial and ancistrofuran
Abstract
Soldiers of the termite Ancistrotermes cavithorax produce terpenoid defence secretions, but whereas the minor soldiers produce ancistrodial (1) exclusively, the major soldiers secrete ancistrofuran (6), together with (4) and (5).
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Other species in Ancistrotermes (15 species)
- Ancistrotermes cavithorax
- Ancistrotermes crassiceps
- Ancistrotermes crucifer
- Ancistrotermes dimorphus
- Ancistrotermes dubius
- Ancistrotermes equatorius
- Ancistrotermes ganlanbaensis
- Ancistrotermes guineensis
- Ancistrotermes latinotus
- Ancistrotermes menglianensis
- Ancistrotermes microdens
- Ancistrotermes pakistanicus
- Ancistrotermes periphrasis
- Ancistrotermes wasmanni
- Ancistrotermes xiai
Cite this species
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GB/T 7714
班奈特格林. Extant Isoptera (termites): a checklist of Latin and Chinese names: Ancistrotermes hekouensis 河口钩白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/ancistrotermes-hekouensis/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.
BibTeX
@misc{isoptera_ancistrotermes_hekouensis_2026,
author = {班奈特格林},
title = {Ancistrotermes hekouensis: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
year = {2026},
version = {2026.10.30},
howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/ancistrotermes-hekouensis/},
note = {TERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}
RIS
TY - ELEC TI - Ancistrotermes hekouensis: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites) AU - 班奈特格林 PY - 2026 UR - https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/ancistrotermes-hekouensis/ DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836 ER -