Neotermes tuberogulus Xu & Han, 1985 丘颏新白蚁

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 red-brown, mandibles blackish brown and slightly paler at the base, antennae pale yellowish brown, thorax and abdomen greyish yellow, head and thoracic tergites with sparse long hairs. Head capsule nearly rectangular, the lateral margins parallel, the posterior margin broadly rounded; frons slightly inclined forwards and slightly concave. Eyes large, oval, the distance from the eye to the antennal socket shorter than the long diameter of the eye. Antennae with 14 segments, segment 3 slightly longer than segment 2, segment 4 shortest. Postclypeus flat and nearly rectangular, with several long hairs near the front; anteclypeus wide, short and nearly trapezoidal; labrum nearly rectangular, the anterior margin broadly rounded, with several long hairs on the surface and near the anterior margin. Mandibles stout, the base swollen, the apex slightly curved inwards; the left mandible longer than half the head, the inner margin with five marginal teeth, the first and second nearly equal in length, the first an unequal triangle, the second nearly triangular, the third and fourth shortest with a deep concavity between them, the fifth slightly longer and nearly triangular; the right mandible with two marginal teeth nearly equal in length, slightly wavy between the apical tooth and the first tooth. The anterior end of the postmentum rather wide, the middle of the surface distinctly raised like a mound, the lateral margins concave inwards at the middle, dividing the postmentum into an anterior and a posterior lobe, the former distinctly larger than the latter; the waist section slender, slightly widened near the base. Pronotum distinctly wider than the head capsule, the anterior margin a broad V-shaped notch with an incision, the posterior lateral corners nearly broadly rounded, the posterior margin rather flat and slightly concave in the middle.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Guangzhou, Guangdong.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 63 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.