Neotermes yunnanensis Xu & Han, 1985 云南新白蚁

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

Soldier head yellowish brown, the labrum slightly paler, the mandibles dark brown but slightly paler at the base, the antennae pale yellow, the thoracic nota and abdomen greyish yellow, with sparse long setae on the head, thorax and abdomen. Head capsule nearly rectangular, the lateral margins nearly parallel, the posterior margin broadly rounded, the frons slightly inclined forwards. Eyes rather small, oval and clearly visible, their long axis almost equal to the distance from the eye to the antenna. Antennae with 14 segments, segment 3 slightly longer than segment 2. Four long setae in front of the postclypeus; anteclypeus rather broad and nearly trapezoidal; labrum nearly square, its anterior margin broadly rounded, with a few long setae near the anterior margin. Mandibles robust, swollen at the base, the apices slightly incurved. Left mandible about half as long as the head capsule, its inner margin with five marginal teeth, teeth 1 and 2 equal in length, teeth 3 and 4 bluntly pointed with a deep concavity between them, and a shallow concavity between teeth 4 and 5; right mandible with two marginal teeth, the outline between the first tooth and the apical tooth slightly undulate, the two teeth almost equal in length and forming a scalene triangle. Postmentum club-shaped, slightly flattened; the lateral margins at its widest anterior point divide the postmentum slightly into an anterior and a posterior lobe, the anterior lobe larger than the posterior; the waist extends ventrally and is slender, its two edges parallel to each other, the anterior margin broadly rounded, the posterior margin slightly concave inwards. The processes of the antennal sockets are very well developed. Pronotum distinctly broader than the head capsule, its anterior margin rather deeply concave and with a median notch, the lateral margins slightly directed backwards and nearly broadly rounded, the posterior margin nearly straight.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Yunnan (Jinghong).

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 65 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.