Nasutitermes guizhouensis Ping & Xu, 1988 贵州象白蚁

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 orange-yellow, nasus reddish brown, antennae also orange-yellow; thoracic and abdominal tergites and legs pale yellow, the anterior half of the pronotum brown. Head almost bare, the tip of the nasus with several long hairs, the anterior half of the nasus with a number of short hairs; margins of the pronotum with a few fine hairs, abdominal tergites sparsely covered with short fine hairs, four longitudinal rows of hairs between the posterior margins, the posterior margins of tergites 8 and 9 each with eight hairs, the hairs of the sternites rather coarse and long. Head nearly circular, slightly longer than wide, the length including the nasus about 1.7 times the head width, widest behind the middle, the posterior margin slightly rounded. Nasus a round tube, slightly thicker at the base, its length more than three fifths of the head length; in lateral view the nasus extending straight forwards, the dorsal margin of the head rising from behind the base of the nasus to the vertex, the vertex projecting above the tip of the nasus, the apical spine of the mandibles protruding. Antennae with 13 segments, segments 2 and 4 rather short. Pronotum saddle-shaped, more than twice as wide as long, the posterior margin slightly concave in the middle. Tibial spur formula 2:2:2, tarsi 4-segmented.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Danzhai, Guizhou.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 419 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.