Neotermes brachynotum Xu & Han, 1985 扁胸新白蚁

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 and labrum of the soldier orange-yellow, anteclypeus greyish yellow, mandibles blackish brown and red-brown at the base, antennal segments 1 and 3 nearly brownish yellow and the rest pale yellow, thoracic and abdominal tergites and legs greyish yellow, the body covered with sparse long hairs. Head capsule nearly rectangular, the lateral margins nearly parallel, the posterior margin broadly rounded; Y-shaped suture faintly visible, frons inclined forwards, shallowly concave and rather smooth in the middle, with several long hairs. Eyes small and indistinct. Antennae with 12 to 14 segments, segment 3 longer than segment 2. Anterior margin of the postclypeus with several hairs; anteclypeus wide, flat and nearly trapezoidal; labrum nearly rectangular, the anterior margin broadly rounded, the dorsum with two rows of long hairs. Mandibles stout, the base swollen, the apex slightly curved, longer than half the head capsule. Left mandible with five marginal teeth: the first and second nearly equal in length, unequal triangles with slightly pointed apices; the third and fourth shortest and nearly equal, with a deep concavity between them; the fifth close to the fourth and slightly longer. Right mandible with two marginal teeth nearly equal in length, the first an unequal triangle with the posterior margin longer than the anterior. Postmentum rather slender, the lateral margins of the wide anterior region slightly concave at the middle forming anterior and posterior lobes, the middle section slender, slightly wider near the base, the anterior margin nearly broadly rounded, the posterior margin slightly concave; in lateral view the dorsal margin of the head slightly arched, the postmentum slightly projecting. Pronotum wide and short, about 2.5 to 2.7 times as wide as its median length, the anterior margin with a broad and rather deep V-shaped notch, the lateral margins to the posterior lateral margin nearly broadly rounded, the middle of the posterior margin slightly concave.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Ledong, Hainan.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 51 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.