Macrotermes denticulatus Li & Ping, 1983 细齿大白蚁

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

Major soldier: head capsule reddish brown, mandibles pure black with a reddish brown base, thoracic and abdominal tergites pale brown, legs yellowish white; pilosity extremely sparse, with only a few setae on each side of the labrum, the setae at the tips of the lateral angles of the thoracic segments also absent. Head nearly rectangular, narrow in front and broad in the middle, the lateral margins slightly undulate, the posterior margin nearly straight; the middle of the inner margin of the left mandible with a row of small serrations; labrum broadly ligulate, about as long as wide apart from the transparent tip, the tip blunt; the anterior part of the postmentum contracted, broader above the waist, narrowing and then parallel below it; antennae with 17 segments, segment 3 1.5 times as long as segment 2, segment 5 shortest; fontanelle situated in the anterior part of the middle of the head. The anterior and posterior margins of the pronotum both distinctly incised, the posterior margin of the mesonotum clearly concave, the posterior margin of the metanotum nearly straight, the lateral angles of all three thoracic segments with angular lobes. Minor soldier paler, head pale yellow and thorax and abdomen even paler, mandibles reddish brown, almost hairless; head oval, widest at the middle, mandibles slender, elongate and nearly straight, labrum ligulate with a rounded blunt transparent tip, fontanelle and eyes both indistinct; antennae with 17 segments, segment 2 slightly longer than segment 3.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Xiaomenglun, Yunnan; Xinglong, Hainan; Pingxiang, Guangxi.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 300 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.