Macrotermes incisus He & Qiu, 1990 凹缘大白蚁

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 and labrum pale brownish yellow, mandibles dark brown, antennae brown, thorax, abdomen and legs dull yellow; hairs extremely sparse, with five pairs of somewhat longer hairs behind the apical hairs of the labrum, the pronotum almost bare. Head nearly rectangular, slightly swollen near the middle, the posterior margin arcuate and concave in the centre; in lateral view the dorsal margin rather flat, the middle of the postmentum arched outwards; mandibles stout and curved, the apex strongly incurved; antennae with 17 segments, segments 3 and 4 nearly equal in length and both shorter than segment 2. Anterior lobe of the pronotum shorter than the posterior lobe, the posterior margin markedly concave in the middle; mesonotum narrowest with the lateral angles projecting as points; metanotum slightly wider than the mesonotum but narrower than the pronotum. Minor soldier: head brownish yellow, mandibles dark brown, pronotum pale brownish yellow; head nearly rectangular and widest near the middle; fontanelle a small red dot, the eyes below and behind the antennal sockets; labrum elongate-lanceolate; mandibles slender with the apex slightly incurved; antennae with 17 segments, segment 2 longer than segment 3, segment 4 shortest. Anterior and posterior lobes of the pronotum almost equal in length, the anterior notch minute and the posterior notch distinct.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Libo, Guizhou.

Taxonomic notes

The genus name was printed in the original work as Macrote, a typographical error for Macrotermes; the species is still placed in the genus Macrotermes.

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 303 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.