Neotermes amplilabralis Xu & Han, 1985 宽唇新白蚁

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 capsule of the soldier nearly orange-yellow, mandibles red and paler at the base, labrum and antennae pale yellow, thorax and abdomen greyish yellow, the body covered with sparse long hairs. Head capsule nearly rectangular, rather wide and short, the lateral margins parallel, the posterior margin nearly broadly rounded; frons slightly inclined forwards, concave in a U shape. Eyes large and nearly round, their short diameter about 0.22 mm, the distance from the eye to the antennal socket slightly shorter than the short diameter of the eye. Antennae with 14 segments, segment 3 distinctly longer than segment 2. Anterior margin of the postclypeus with several long hairs; anteclypeus nearly trapezoidal, distinctly wider than long; labrum nearly broadly rounded, also distinctly wider than long, the dorsum arched and bearing several long hairs, the margin semi-transparent. Mandibles stout, the base markedly swollen; the outer margin of the left mandible rather straight, the apex curved inwards, the length about 60 per cent of the head capsule (to the mandibular base); the inner margin, apart from the apical tooth, with five marginal teeth: the first and second nearly equal in length, the first an unequal triangle with the posterior margin longer than the anterior, the third and fourth adjacent with a deep concavity between them, the fifth slightly longer than the fourth with a shallow concavity between the two. The outer margin of the right mandible curved and distinctly more curved than that of the left mandible, the inner margin with two marginal teeth forming unequal triangles, uneven and slightly wavy between the apical tooth and the first tooth. Postmentum rod-shaped, the lateral margins almost parallel below the waist, slightly enlarged near the base; in lateral view the dorsal margin of the head slightly arched, the postmentum slightly projecting. Pronotum distinctly wider than the head capsule, the anterior margin with a broad deep V-shaped notch, the lateral margins broadly rounded, the posterior margin rather straight and slightly concave in the middle.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Mangshi, Yunnan.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 48 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.