Euhamitermes microcephalus 小头亮白蚁
- Type locality
- China: Guizhou Province: Loudian
- Distribution
- Oriental region
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Summary
Euhamitermes microcephalus is a species of the genus Euhamitermes, in the family TERMITIDAE (subfamily Apicotermitinae). The species was described by Ping & Li in 1987; the type locality is China: Guizhou Province: Loudian. Distribution: Oriental region.
Etymology
Genus name Euhamitermes: From Greek eu- (well) + (hami, perhaps Latin hamus ‘hook’) + termes.
Specific epithet microcephalus: Greek mikros (small) + kephalē (head), small-headed
Taxonomic position
- Family: TERMITIDAE — 280 genera, 2144 species
- Subfamily: Apicotermitinae — 68 genera, 241 species
- Genus: Euhamitermes — 24 species
- Type species of the genus: Euhamitermes hamatus
Distribution
- Distribution records: Oriental region
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
Head yellowish brown and densely covered with short pubescence, the tips of the mandibles brown tinged with red, antennae, thorax and abdomen yellowish white. Head square but rounded, the middle of the lateral margins slightly expanded, the anterior margin straight, the posterior margin broadly rounded; labrum nearly square, its tip straight or slightly concave; mandibles hooked, each with a large blunt tooth at or slightly before the apical third, and one minute sharp tooth above the base of each; antennae with 14 segments, the second longer than the third; the waist of the postmentum 0.27–0.36 mm wide, the waist region indistinct; pronotum saddle-shaped, the middle of the posterior margin straight or concave forwards.
Alate
Head brown, thorax and abdomen brown or slightly paler, wing scales brown; head capsule and pronotum densely covered with short pubescence and scattered long setae. Head flat and rounded; fontanelle oval and depressed, a pale small dot in front of the fontanelle; compound eyes subcircular, their long diameter about five to six times the distance between them and the lower margin of the head; ocelli flat and rounded, their long diameter more than three times the ocellus-compound eye distance; labrum semicircular; postclypeus trapezoidal, about half as long as wide; antennae with 15 segments, the third shortest; antennal spot circular and of the same colour as the head capsule, situated in front of the ocelli and smaller than them; the anterior margin of the pronotum straight, the middle of the posterior margin straight or slightly concave.
Worker
Nymph
Abstract (from the source)
The soldier head is yellowish brown and densely pubescent, squarish with rounded sides and a broadly rounded hind margin. The labrum is nearly square with a straight or faintly concave tip; each hook-like mandible has a large blunt tooth near the apical third and a minute tooth above the base. Antennae have 14 segments, the second longer than the third. Dealate adults are brown with a flattened round head, an oval fontanelle and 15-segmented antennae.
Biology
Distribution and locality
Luodian, Guizhou; Xuwen, Taishan, Conghua and Huiyang, Guangdong; Lingao and Qiongshan, Hainan; Dongxing, Guangxi.
Taxonomic notes
Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 324 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.
- New Records of Euhamitermes Holmgren From South India
Abstract
Euhamitermes Holmgren is a soldier rare, soil feeding termite of the Oriental region. Two species of this genus viz., Euhamitermes lighti (Snyder) and Euhamitermes chhotanii Maiti are hereby first reported from southern Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala, respectively. Record of E. chhotanii in Kerala makes an addition of the genus and thus to the termite fauna of Kerala. These two species are redescribed and illustrated based on soldier and workers.
- Notes on the Genus Euhamitermes (Isoptera) From Yunnan,China,With Descriptions of two New Species
Abstract
- Termites from Garhwal, Uttarakhand (Insecta: Isoptera), with New Distributional Records
Abstract
Fourty species of termites belonging to four families (Kalotermitidae, Rhinotermitidae, Stylotermitidae and Termitidae) and 13 genera ( Neotermes, Coptotermes, Stylotermes, Speculitermes, Euhamitermes, Microcerotermes, Angulitermes, Dicuspiditermes, Pericapritermes, Odontotermes, Microtermes and Nasutitermes ) are reported here from Garhwal, Uttarakhand. Eleven species are reported first time from Garhwal as new distributional records: Stylotermes faveolus (Chatterjee and Thakur); Speculitermes sinhalensis Roonwal and Sen-Sarma; Microcerotermes cameroni Snyder; Angulitermes tilaki Roonwal and Chhotani; Dicuspiditermes obtusus (Silvestri); Odontotermes bellahunisens is Holmgren and Holmgren; O. brunneus (Hagen); O. indicus Thakur; O. latiguloides Roonwal and Verma; O. redemani (Wasmann); O. wallonensis (Wasmann).
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Other species in Euhamitermes (23 species)
- Euhamitermes aruna
- Euhamitermes bidentatus
- Euhamitermes chhotanii
- Euhamitermes concavigulus
- Euhamitermes daweishanensis
- Euhamitermes dentatus
- Euhamitermes guizhouensis
- Euhamitermes hamatus
- Euhamitermes indicus
- Euhamitermes kanhaensis
- Euhamitermes karnatakensis
- Euhamitermes lighti
- Euhamitermes melanocephalus
- Euhamitermes mengdingensis
- Euhamitermes quadratceps
- Euhamitermes retusus
- Euhamitermes shillongensis
- Euhamitermes urbanii
- Euhamitermes wittmeri
- Euhamitermes yui
- Euhamitermes yunnanensis
- Euhamitermes yuntaishanensis
- Euhamitermes zhejianensis
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: Euhamitermes microcephalus 小头亮白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/euhamitermes-microcephalus/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.
BibTeX
@misc{isoptera_euhamitermes_microcephalus_2026,
author = {班奈特格林},
title = {Euhamitermes microcephalus: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
year = {2026},
version = {2026.10.30},
howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/euhamitermes-microcephalus/},
note = {TERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}
RIS
TY - ELEC TI - Euhamitermes microcephalus: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites) AU - 班奈特格林 PY - 2026 UR - https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/euhamitermes-microcephalus/ DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836 ER -