Microtermes mengpengensis Zhu & Huang, 1991 勐捧小白蚁

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 pale yellow or deep yellow, mandibles reddish brown with the basal third yellow, labrum pale yellow, antennae milky white, pronotum, abdomen and legs pale yellow to almost milky white. Head densely covered with fine short hairs and scattered long hairs; the labrum with a pair of apical hairs and six pairs to several long hairs in longitudinal rows on each side; the margins of the pronotum with sparse long hairs. Head nearly circular or nearly oval, widest at the middle; in lateral view raised like a mound at or in front of the middle. Labrum ligulate, the apex bluntly rounded. The anterior end of the mandibles slender and incurved, the middle of the inner margin with a single minute denticle, or indistinct. Postmentum arched, projecting in a broad arc at the middle. In individuals with 15 antennal segments, segment 3 shortest; in those with 16, segment 4 shortest. Pronotum narrower than the head width, the anterior and posterior margins concave in the middle. Small soldier paler in body and head colour than the major soldier, smaller in size, similar to the major soldier in the morphology of all parts.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Mengpeng, Mengla, Yunnan, 580 m above sea level.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 344 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.