Macrotermes meidoensis Huang & Han, 1988 梅多大白蚁

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 reddish brown, slightly paler posteriorly, with two dark brown longitudinal stripes from the middle of the dorsum to the posterior margin, antennae brownish yellow, mandibles black with a reddish brown base, thoracic and abdominal tergites yellowish brown; head almost bare, ten setae on each side of the labrum, four on the pronotum. Head longer than wide, elongate-trapezoidal, narrow in front and broad behind, widest in the middle and posterior part, the posterior margin nearly straight; fontanelle dot-like at the centre of the dorsum; postmentum long, broad and hexagonal in front, constricted at the waist; mandibles stout with the anterior end incurved, the left mandible with several shallow incisions and one deeper one behind the midpoint, the right mandible toothless; labrum almost triangular, widest near the base, the transparent anterior part pagoda-shaped; antennae with 17 segments, segment 1 longest, segment 2 shortest and small, columnar. Minor soldier smaller and paler; head oval, fontanelle at the centre of the vertex, postmentum projecting on the venter and club-shaped; labrum narrow and elongate, the tip transparent and spear-like; mandibles straight and slender, sabre-like, the tip slightly incurved; antennae with 17 segments, segment 5 shortest.

Alate

Worker

Head yellow, mandibles yellowish brown with dark brown teeth; head nearly circular; antennae with 17 segments, segments 1 and 2 cylindrical, segment 5 shortest, a small pale eye spot behind the antennal socket; fontanelle flattened and round, at the centre of the vertex; clypeus divided into anterior and posterior parts, the anteclypeus small and flat, the postclypeus large and raised and divided into left and right halves by the median suture; labrum short and ligulate; left and right mandibles each with one apical tooth and two marginal teeth; the anterior half of the pronotum tilted upwards and saddle-shaped.

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Motuo, Tibet (800 to 1100 m above sea level); Shiqiong Mountain (1000 m); Maniweng (800 m); Xirang (800 to 1200 m).

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 309 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.