Nasutitermes tsaii Huang & Han, 1987 蔡氏象白蚁

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 yellow slightly mottled with brown, nasus reddish brown, antennae dull yellow, abdomen milky white. Head with only one to two hairs, almost bare; the dorsum of the abdomen with a few fine short hairs, the ventral surface with numerous and longer short hairs, the posterior margin of each sternite with a row of long hairs, the tip of the nasus also hairy. Head broadly rounded, approximating a transversely oriented ellipse, widest behind the middle. Nasus conical, thick in its posterior section; in lateral view the dorsum of the nasus and the anterior part of the vertex almost forming a straight line, the base of the nasus curved backwards and rising gradually towards the middle and posterior part of the head. Antennae with 11 to 13 segments, mostly 12: in this case segment 3 shortest, segment 4 equal to or slightly longer than segment 2, segments 4 and 5 equal in length. Postmentum strongly projecting, square in frontal view, the lateral margins narrowing from back to front, the anterior margin straight and the posterior margin concave. Mandibles without an anteriorly projecting pointed spine; labrum rectangular, the anterior margin convex and slightly concave in the middle. Pronotum about half the head width, saddle-shaped, the anterior part erect, forming a low semicircle and shorter than the posterior part, the anterior margin slightly concave in the middle. Abdomen olive-shaped, the hind tibia about as long as the head width.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Beibeng, Motuo, Tibet.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 438 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.