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Extant Isoptera (Termites) — Latin–Chinese Name Comparison List 现存等翅下目（白蚁）拉丁学名—中文正名对照名录

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Pericapritermes semarangi Holmgren, 1913 三宝近扭白蚁

Species

Type locality
Indonesia: Java: Semarang
Distribution
India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Brunei, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand

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Summary

Pericapritermes semarangi is a species of the genus Pericapritermes, in the family TERMITIDAE (subfamily Mirocapritermitinae). The species was described by Holmgren in 1913; the type locality is Indonesia: Java: Semarang. Distribution: India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Brunei, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand. This site records 2 junior synonyms for the species.

Etymology

Genus name Pericapritermes: From Greek peri- (around) + Latin caper (goat) + termes.

Specific epithet semarangi: Named after the locality Semarang (Central Java, Indonesia)

Taxonomic position

Distribution

  • Distribution records: India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Brunei, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand

The record above follows the wording of the original data; no geocoding or standardized place names have been applied.

Junior synonyms

This site records 2 junior synonyms for the species, listed by their original literature source:

  1. Capritermes javanicus Holmgren, 1913: 255-256 — type locality: Indonesia: Java: Semarang
  2. Capritermes sumatrensis John, 1925: 215-216 — type locality: Indonesia: Sumatra: Kota Bahru

In older literature, regional checklists and database searches, this species may appear under the synonyms above (Capritermes javanicus, Capritermes sumatrensis); this site treats them all under Pericapritermes semarangi.

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

Alate

Worker

Head oval, widest slightly behind the antennal sockets. The middle of the vertex is rather high, with a small shallow depression in front of it and another behind it. The postclypeus is markedly raised, less than half as long as wide. Antennae with 14 segments, segment 2 equal to the sum of segments 3 and 4. The anterior part of the pronotum is semicircular and very highly raised. The abdomen is long and swollen, the legs short.

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Workers have an oval head widest just behind the antennal sockets, with the vertex raised in the middle and a shallow depression before and behind it. The postclypeus is distinctly arched and less than half as long as wide. The antennae have 14 segments, the second equalling the third and fourth combined. The front lobe of the pronotum rises in a high semicircle, the abdomen is long and swollen, and the legs are short. The species lives beneath grass cover.

Biology

It lives under grass cover.

Distribution and locality

Xinglong, Hainan; Simao, Mangshi and Santaishi, Yunnan; abroad it is found in Java and Sumatra, Indonesia.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 379 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.

Distribution map

No GBIF record with coordinates was found for this species.

Other databases

The links below are produced by matching the scientific name against public APIs, for cross-checking. The checklist data itself is unchanged.

✔ Consistent with the accepted names in GBIF and Catalogue of Life.

Sources：GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · Catalogue of Life (3LR, 2026-10-14 · doi:10.48580/dgzh4) · Wikidata (P225) · Blattodea Species File. Retrieved on 2026-11-13 (UTC). Matching method and decision rules are described on the data page.

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Related papers

Cached papers for this genus (matched automatically, for reference); to search this species with its junior synonyms merged in, use the literature search.

  1. Internal Armature of the Hindgut of Pericapritermes nitobei (Shiraki)

    Natsumi Kanzaki, Wakako Ohmura · 2016 · Sociobiology

    Abstract

    The internal armature of the hindgut of Pericapritermes nitobei was examined under a light microscope. Termites were obtained from Iriomote Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, identified based on the typological characters of soldiers and 12S (mitochondrial) ribosomal RNA sequencing, and dissected to examine hindgut morphology. The hindgut of P. nitobei could be separated into four parts, P1-P4, and P1-P3 had cuticular spines on the inner surface. P1 bore small triangular spines. P2 formed an enteric valve, composed of six finger-shaped enteric pads with triangular spines, and six marginal regions with small dot-like spines. P3 bore three different types of spines: relatively large star-shaped spines; thorn-like small spines, and long curved spines with brush-like tips.

  2. The complete mitochondrial genome of Pericapritermes nitobei (Isoptera: Termitidae)

    Yiyuan Liao, Shengli Lu, Haihong Chen, Dayu Zhang · 2018 · Mitochondrial DNA Part B

    Abstract

    The complete circular mitochondrial genome of a higher termite Pericapritermes nitobei has a length of 15,224bp and encodes 37 genes including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA (tRNA), 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and a non-coding control region (D-loop). Protein coding genes (PCGs) in this circular mitogenome start with standard ATN initiation codons and end with complete termination codons TAN except for cox2 and nad5 genes with an incomplete stop codon T. The percentage of A and T (67.49%) is higher than that of G and C (32.51%). The phylogenetic tree revealed that mitogenomes of Pericapritermes formed one clade. The tree also revealed that Pericapritermes dolichocephalus and Pericapritermes latignathus constituted a sister group to P. nitobei. The date here provide a resource for genetics and evolution analysis within termites especially Pericapritermes genus.

  3. A NEW SPECIES AND NEW RECORD OF PERICAPRITERMES(ISOPTERA: TERMITIDAE: TERMITINAE)

    Li G · 1983 · Acta Entomologica Sinica

    Abstract

    Pericapritermes gutianensis sp. nov. soldier (figs. 1-6) Imago (figs. 7-10).Body medium. Soldier and Imago resemble to Pericapritermes jangtsekiangensis (Kemner), but the soldier with body larger in size, and head comparatively wider and thicker; also resemble to Pericapritermes fetraphilus (Silvestri), but its imago is black brown vs. reddish brown; the imago and soldiers of the new species are much smaller than P. tetraphilus(Silvestri), Imago: width of head with eyes 1.21-1.26 (1.24) vs. 1.33-1.40 (1.38); width of pronotum 0.98-1.09 (1.02) vs. 1.13-1.17 (1.15). Soldier: width of head 1.40-1.51 (1.46) vs. 1.53-1.78 (1.69); width of pronotum 0.80-0.92 (0.85) vs. 0.97-1.17 (1.13).Pericapritermes latignathus (Holmgren), new record. The soldiers resemble to P. tetraphilus (Silvestri), but its abdomen densely pilose, each tergite with many Jong bristles vs. abdomen scantily hairly, each tergite with four-five long bristles.All specimens are deposited in the Guangdong Institute of Entomology.

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Literature notes

Edited notes based on the original literature, not transcriptions. The source markers in each paragraph point to archived records in .sources; full citations are listed below.

Abundance along a land-use gradient

According to the abstract of Pribadi et al. (2011), Pericapritermes semarangi was represented by 31 individuals on the eastern slopes of Mount Slamet, Central Java, more than a third of the 88 individuals collected across seven species and the highest total of any species; in the same survey soil-feeding termites were absent from settlements and occurred mainly in protected and production forest, on which basis the authors treated soil feeders as indicators of forest habitat.

References

Literature notes updated: 2026-11-13.

Other species in Pericapritermes (39 species)

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Cite this species

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GB/T 7714

班奈特格林. Extant Isoptera (termites): a checklist of Latin and Chinese names: Pericapritermes semarangi 三宝近扭白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/pericapritermes-semarangi/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.

BibTeX

@misc{isoptera_pericapritermes_semarangi_2026,
  author       = {班奈特格林},
  title        = {Pericapritermes semarangi: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {2026.10.30},
  howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/pericapritermes-semarangi/},
  note         = {TERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}

RIS

TY  - ELEC
TI  - Pericapritermes semarangi: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)
AU  - 班奈特格林
PY  - 2026
UR  - https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/pericapritermes-semarangi/
DO  - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836
ER  -