Neotermes sphenocephalus Xu & Han, 1985 楔头新白蚁

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 of the soldier orange-yellow, anteclypeus greyish yellow, labrum orange-red, mandibles red-brown and slightly paler at the base, antennal segments 1 and 3 nearly orange-red and the rest nearly greyish yellow, thorax, abdomen and legs greyish yellow, the head covered with rather sparse long hairs. Head capsule nearly rectangular, rather wide and short, widest near the posterior part, the posterior margin nearly flat or broadly rounded; Y-shaped suture visible, frons slightly inclined forwards, slightly concave in the middle. Eyes narrow and long, faintly visible. Antennae with 13 to 14 segments, segment 3 slightly longer than segment 2. Anterior margin of the postclypeus with several long hairs; anteclypeus wide, flat and nearly trapezoidal; labrum nearly square, the anterior margin broadly rounded, with several long hairs on the dorsum and near the anterior margin. Mandibles stout, the base swollen, the apex slightly curved inwards, longer than half the head capsule, the head height nearly equal to the left mandible. Postmentum wide and short, the lateral margins of the widest anterior end slightly concave at the middle and divided into anterior and posterior lobes, the anterior lobe slightly larger than the posterior, the middle section slender, again distinctly swollen near the base. In lateral view the dorsal margin of the head slightly raised, the postmentum slightly projecting. The anterior margin of the pronotum broadly and deeply concave, with an incision in the middle, the middle of the posterior margin slightly concave.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Wanning, Guangdong.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 61 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.