Nasutitermes inclinasus Ping & Xu, 1988 倾鼻象白蚁

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 brownish yellow tinged with red, thorax, abdomen and legs pale yellowish white, the anterior half of the pronotum yellowish brown. Surface of the head sparsely covered with fine hairs, the tip of the nasus densely covered with short hairs, the base of the nasus and the region behind the vertex each with two long hairs, the abdominal tergites with four longitudinal rows of hairs. Head flatly rounded, wider than long, widest behind the middle, the sides swelling into a circle from behind the antennal sockets, the posterolateral corners broadly rounded, the posterior margin rather flat and slightly concave in the middle. Nasus a round tube, its base triangular in width; in lateral view the nasus inclined downwards, not concave behind its base, the vertex higher than the tip of the nasus, the anterior end of the mandibles with a pointed spine. Antennae with 13 segments, segment 2 shortest, segment 3 rather long. Pronotum saddle-shaped, more than twice as wide as long, the anterior margin distinctly notched in the middle, the middle of the posterior margin nearly straight. 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. 421 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.