Nasutitermes planiusculus Ping & Xu, 1988 平圆象白蚁

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 greyish yellow tinged with brown, nasus reddish brown, antennae yellowish brown, thorax, abdomen and legs pale yellowish brown, the anterior half of the pronotum darker. Surface of the head sparsely covered with minute hairs, the tip of the nasus with a few short hairs mixed with several long ones, the base of the nasus and the region behind the vertex each with a pair of long hairs; the anterior margin of the pronotum with a row of short hairs, the hairs of the abdominal tergites arranged in about four rows, with four longitudinal rows of long hairs between them. The head together with the nasus has an outline roughly resembling that of the character you: the lateral margins bulge out roundly behind the antennal sockets, the widest point lies in front of the middle, the middle section runs almost parallel towards the rear, and the posterior margin is straight; nasus a stout short cone, extending straight in lateral view, the vertex higher than the tip of the nasus, the base of the nasus not raised, the posterior vertex arching up in a dome. Mandibles without an apical spine. Antennae with 11 to 13 segments, in the 13-segmented form segment 4 shortest, segments 2 and 3 nearly equal in length. Pronotum saddle-shaped, the anterior margin shallowly concave in the middle, the posterior margin broadly rounded. Hind tibial spur formula 2:2:2, tarsi 4-segmented.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Rongjiang, Guizhou.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 430 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.