Nasutitermes falciformis Ping & Xu, 1988 鹰鼻象白蚁

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 of the soldier yellowish brown, nasus brown tinged with red, antennae pale yellowish brown, thorax, abdomen and legs pale yellowish white, the anterior half of the pronotum slightly darker. Surface of the head sparsely beset with fine hairs, two long hairs behind the vertex, a few short hairs at the tip of the nasus, two short hairs at the base of the nasus, the tergites of the abdomen sparsely covered with short hairs. Head circular, slightly wider than long, widest at mid-length; the sides together with the posterior margin forming a circle. Nasus a stout cone, shorter than the head length; in lateral view the base of the nasus raised and sloping down towards the apex like a hawk's beak, shallowly concave behind the base of the nasus and then arching to the vertex; mandibles without an apical spine. Antennae with 11 to 13 segments, segments 2 and 3 almost equal, segment 4 shortest, segment 3 seemingly with indications of further subdivision. Pronotum saddle-shaped, more than twice as wide as long, the concavity in the middle of the anterior margin shallow and indistinct, the middle of the posterior margin not concave. Hind tibial spur formula 2:2:2.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Longsheng, Guangxi.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 412 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.