Macrotermes longimentis Zhu & Luo, 1987 长颏大白蚁

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

Head yellowish brown, the base of the antennae, the thoracic tergites and the posterior half of each abdominal segment darker, mandibles black; hairs sparse on head and thorax, those on the posterior margins of the abdominal segments arranged in rows, about more than twenty. Head nearly oval, narrow in front and broad behind, the lateral margins arcuate, the posterolateral corners rounded; labrum about 1.5 times as long as wide, the large semi-transparent pentagonal area at the tip enclosing a small triangular area; mandibles slender, sickle-shaped, the left mandible with eight incisions behind the midpoint, of which the first and third counted from the base are deeper and the second broader and shallower, the rest minute, the right mandible with a projection at the base and otherwise smooth and toothless; antennae with 17 segments, segment 3 longest and segment 2 shortest, segment 3 nearly twice segment 2 and slightly longer than segment 4.

Alate

Head and thorax deep yellowish brown, abdomen slightly paler; postclypeus deep yellow, markedly arched, with two hairs; anteclypeus white; labrum yellow, with an ill-defined pale transverse band at the middle and a slightly darker triangular patch in front of it and behind it, four hairs in all. Pilosity sparse on the head, somewhat denser on the thorax and abdomen.

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Beihai, Guangxi.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 307 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.