Neotermes miracapitalis Xu & Han, 1985 奇头新白蚁

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 nearly orange-red, anteclypeus greyish yellow, mandibles blackish brown and slightly paler at the base, antennal segment 3 nearly orange-red and the remaining segments greyish yellow, thoracic and abdominal tergites and legs greyish yellow, the body covered with sparse hairs. Head capsule nearly rectangular, the lateral margins nearly parallel and slightly contracted near the middle, the posterior margin nearly flat and slightly concave in the middle; Y-shaped suture visible, the front of the frons slightly inclined, the median depression indistinct. Eyes small, the long diameter of the eye and the distance from the eye to the antennal socket nearly equal. Antennae with 13 segments, segment 3 slightly longer than segment 2, segment 4 shortest. Anterior margin of the postclypeus with several long hairs; anteclypeus wide, flat and nearly trapezoidal, the anterior margin nearly flat; labrum nearly rectangular, the anterior margin broadly rounded, the dorsum with several long hairs near the anterior lateral margin. Mandibles stout, the base swollen, the apex slightly curved, longer than half the head capsule. The inner margin of the left mandible with five marginal teeth, the first distinctly longer than the second with a deep concavity between them; the third with a rather flat tooth surface, also deeply concave between it and the fourth; the notch between the fourth and fifth rather shallow. The inner margin of the right mandible with two marginal teeth, slightly uneven between the first tooth and the apical tooth, the two teeth nearly equal in length and forming unequal triangles, the posterior margin of the first distinctly longer than the anterior. Postmentum club-shaped with a waist, the lateral margins of the waist region nearly parallel. In lateral view the dorsal margin of the head nearly flat, the postmentum slightly projecting. Pronotum wider than the head capsule, the anterior margin wider than the posterior, about twice as wide as its median length, the anterior margin deeply V-shaped, the posterior lateral corners broadly rounded, the posterior margin broadly concave.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Jinping, Yunnan.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 59 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.