Microtermes menglunensis Zhu & Huang, 1991 勐仑小白蚁

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 yellow, mandibles reddish brown with the basal third concolorous with the head, labrum yellow tinged with brown, antennae slightly yellow, pronotum pale yellowish brown, abdomen and legs pale yellow. Head densely covered with fine short hairs, the labrum with a pair of apical hairs and six pairs of long and short hairs in longitudinal rows from the tip to the middle; the margins and dorsum of the pronotum with sparse long and short hairs. Head elongate-oval, narrow in front and broad behind, widest slightly behind the middle; in lateral view raised in the middle of the dorsum towards the front. Labrum lanceolate, the labral rim at the tip transparent. Mandibles stout and straight, the anterior end slightly slender and incurved; the basal tooth of the left mandible broad and rounded, with a minute tooth in front of the concave edge; the basal tooth of the right mandible slightly smaller than that of the left, with two undulate prominences in front of it. Postmentum arched, widest at the anterior third. Antennae with 14 segments, segment 4 shortest. Pronotum saddle-like, the anterior half slightly tilted up, the anterior and posterior margins both concave in the middle.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan, 900 m above sea level.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 343 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.