Nasutitermes machengensis Ping & Li, 1992 麻城象白蚁

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 brownish yellow, nasus tinged with red, thorax and abdomen pale brown, legs pale yellow. Head covered with sparse short hairs, the tip of the nasus with a few short hairs. Large soldier of two forms, up-turned-nasus and flat-nasus: in the up-turned form the tip of the nasus is almost level with the vertex and the base of the nasus is depressed; in the flat form the tip of the nasus lies below the vertex and the base of the nasus is slightly arched. Both forms have short apical spines on the mandibles, antennae with 13 segments, segment 3 rather long; the anterior lobe of the pronotum strongly sclerotised, the anterior and posterior margins nearly straight. Medium form similar to the flat-nasus large form, head nearly circular, antennae with 12 to 13 segments. Small form similar to the medium form, the tip of the nasus distinctly below the vertex, the apical spines of the mandibles blunt or absent, antennae with 12 segments.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Macheng, Hubei.

Taxonomic notes

The original work placed it in the genus Mironasutitermes; it is now assigned to the genus Nasutitermes.

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 456 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.