Euhamitermes quadratceps 方头亮白蚁
- Type locality
- China: Guangdong Province: Dabu County
- Distribution
- China
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Summary
Euhamitermes quadratceps 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: Guangdong Province: Dabu County. Distribution: China.
Etymology
Genus name Euhamitermes: From Greek eu- (well) + (hami, perhaps Latin hamus ‘hook’) + termes.
Specific epithet quadratceps: From quadrat + ceps
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: China
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 pale yellowish brown to yellowish brown, sparsely covered with short pubescence, the tips of the mandibles brown, thorax and abdomen yellowish white. Head slightly square, the sides parallel, the anterior and posterior margins nearly straight; fontanelle punctiform and slightly projecting; labrum semicircular; mandibles hooked, each with a large blunt tooth at or slightly before the apical third, and only one small sharp tooth above the base of each; antennae with 14 segments, the third slightly longer than the second; postmentum club-shaped, the waist 0.28–0.35 mm wide; pronotum saddle-shaped, its posterior margin nearly straight.
Alate
Head brown tinged with red, sparsely covered with pubescence and setae; the dorsum of the thorax and abdomen yellowish brown, the pronotum rather densely haired; wing membrane white and veins brown. Head flat and rounded; fontanelle oval, without a pale round spot in front of it; compound eyes circular, their long diameter about three times the distance between them and the lower margin of the head; the long diameter of the ocelli about four times the ocellus-compound eye distance; labrum semicircular; postclypeus trapezoidal, slightly more than half as long as wide; antennae with 15 segments, the third shortest; antennal spot circular but indistinct, smaller than the ocelli; the anterior and posterior margins of the pronotum nearly straight, the lateral margins slightly oblique backwards.
Worker
Nymph
Abstract (from the source)
The soldier head is pale yellowish brown and sparsely pubescent, squarish with parallel sides and almost straight front and hind margins. The fontanelle is a small raised dot; the labrum is semicircular; each hook-like mandible bears a large blunt tooth near the apical third and only one minute tooth above the base. Antennae have 14 segments. Alates are reddish brown with a flattened round head, a round eye, a large oval ocellus and 15-segmented antennae.
Biology
Distribution and locality
Dabu and Huiyang, Guangdong; Dongxing and Wuming, Guangxi.
Taxonomic notes
Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 325 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 microcephalus
- 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 quadratceps 方头亮白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/euhamitermes-quadratceps/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.
BibTeX
@misc{isoptera_euhamitermes_quadratceps_2026,
author = {班奈特格林},
title = {Euhamitermes quadratceps: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
year = {2026},
version = {2026.10.30},
howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/euhamitermes-quadratceps/},
note = {TERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}
RIS
TY - ELEC TI - Euhamitermes quadratceps: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites) AU - 班奈特格林 PY - 2026 UR - https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/euhamitermes-quadratceps/ DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836 ER -