Neotermes taishanensis Xu & Han, 1985 台山新白蚁

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 pale yellowish brown, clypeus greyish white, labrum and antennae pale yellowish brown, mandibles red-brown and slightly paler at the base, pronotum greyish yellow, mesothorax, metathorax and abdomen slightly darker, head and body covered with sparse long hairs. Head capsule nearly rectangular, the lateral margins nearly parallel, slightly narrower in front and wider behind, the posterior margin nearly flat and slightly concave in the middle; the Y-shaped suture on the vertex faintly visible, frons slightly inclined forwards, shallowly concave in the middle and with indistinct wrinkles. Antennae with 13 to 14 segments, the antennal socket process well developed, segment 3 distinctly longer than segment 2, segment 4 shortest. Anterior margin of the postclypeus with four long hairs; anteclypeus flat, wide and nearly trapezoidal; labrum nearly square, the lateral margins parallel, the anterior margin rather flat. Mandibles stout, the base slightly swollen, the apex slightly curved inwards, about two thirds of the head capsule (to the mandibular base). The inner margin of the left mandible with five marginal teeth, the first and second triangular, the first longest, the third and fourth short and blunt with a deep concavity between them, the notch between the fourth and fifth rather shallow; the inner margin of the right mandible with two marginal teeth, slightly wavy between the first tooth and the apical tooth, the two teeth nearly equal in length. Postmentum wide and short, the middle of the dorsum of the wide anterior end slightly convex and bearing several long hairs, the lateral margins slightly concave at the middle and divided into anterior and posterior lobes, the anterior lobe larger than the posterior; the waist section slightly contracted and again slightly wider near the base; the anterior margin of the postmentum nearly broadly rounded, the posterior margin very slightly concave. Pronotum rather rectangular, wider than the head capsule, the anterior margin deeply V-shaped but without a median incision, the lateral margins nearly parallel, the posterior margin nearly straight and slightly concave in the middle.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Taishan, Guangdong.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 62 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.