Neotermes fovefrons Xu & Han, 1985 洼额新白蚁

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 of the soldier orange-red, mandibles blackish brown and slightly paler at the base, antennae, except segment 3 which is darker, together with the thorax, abdomen and legs greyish yellow; head, thorax and abdomen all with sparse long hairs. Body rather large. Head capsule more or less rectangular, the lateral margins roughly parallel, narrowing slightly towards the posterior end, the posterior margin broadly rounded; the frontal surface slightly inclined, the depression in the middle near the frontal end very distinct. Eyes rather large and nearly round, the distance to the antennal socket less than the long diameter of the eye. Antennae with 15 segments, segment 3 slightly longer than segment 2 or almost equal. Anterior margin of the postclypeus with several long hairs; anteclypeus nearly trapezoidal; labrum nearly square, the anterior margin nearly round, the dorsum with several long hairs. Mandibles stout, the base swollen, the outer margin nearly straight, the apex slightly curved; the left mandible about as long as the head height, the inner margin with five marginal teeth, the first and second triangular and nearly equal in length, the third and fourth shorter with a deep concavity between them, the fifth shorter but slightly longer than the fourth; the right mandible with two marginal teeth, slightly uneven between the first tooth and the apical tooth. The lateral margins of the wide anterior region of the postmentum slightly concave at the middle, distinctly divided into anterior and posterior lobes of equal width, the lateral margins of the waist parallel, slightly wider near the base. Pronotum rectangular, slightly wider than the head capsule, the anterior margin broadly V-shaped and incised, the posterior lateral margins rather broadly rounded, the posterior margin nearly flat and slightly concave in the middle.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Jinghong, Yunnan.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 55 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.