Extant Isoptera Latin–Chinese name comparison list
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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 tetraphilus Silvestri, 1922 大近扭白蚁

Species

Type locality
Bangladesh: Chittagong Hill Tracts: Rangamati
Distribution
Guangdong (Shantou, Shaoguan), Fujian (Pinghe), Yunnan (Yunjinghong 500 m, Hekou 90 m, Pingbian, Jinping Mengla 370, 420, 450, 680 m, Mojiang 1400 m, Santaishan, Simao, Manyun); India; Bangladesh; Myanmar

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Summary

Pericapritermes tetraphilus is a species of the genus Pericapritermes, in the family TERMITIDAE (subfamily Mirocapritermitinae). The species was described by Silvestri in 1922; the type locality is Bangladesh: Chittagong Hill Tracts: Rangamati. Distribution: Guangdong (Shantou, Shaoguan), Fujian (Pinghe), Yunnan (Yunjinghong 500 m, Hekou 90 m, Pingbian, Jinping Mengla 370, 420, 450, 680 m, Mojiang 1400 m, Santaishan, Simao, Manyun); India; Bangladesh; Myanmar. This site records 1 junior synonym for the species.

Etymology

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

Specific epithet tetraphilus: From the descriptive term ‘tetra’ (four)

Taxonomic position

Distribution

  • Distribution records: Guangdong (Shantou, Shaoguan), Fujian (Pinghe), Yunnan (Yunjinghong 500 m, Hekou 90 m, Pingbian, Jinping Mengla 370, 420, 450, 680 m, Mojiang 1400 m, Santaishan, Simao, Manyun); India; Bangladesh; Myanmar

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

Junior synonyms

This site records 1 junior synonym for the species, listed by its original literature source:

  1. Capritermes orientalis Mathur & Sen-Sarma, 1961: 1-4 — type locality: Myanmar: Maymyo

In older literature, regional checklists and database searches, this species may appear under the synonym Capritermes orientalis; this site treats it under Pericapritermes tetraphilus.

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

The posterior part of the head is orange-yellow, gradually deepening forwards into orange-red; the mandibles black; the anterior part of the thorax and the abdomen white or tinged with pale yellow. The longitudinal suture of the head extends forwards from the posterior end for more than half the length of the head. The head is a rather large rectangle; the mandibles are robust, the apex of the left mandible curved outwards and blunt, the right mandible sabre-like. The anterior margin of the labrum is rather straight, the labrum longer than wide, the anterolateral corners projecting as short needles. Antennae with 14 segments, segments 1 to 3 longer than segment 4, segments 6 to 8 equal in length and all longer than segment 5, the segments gradually shortening from the ninth or tenth onwards, the apex of the terminal segment narrow and its length about equivalent to that of segment 5. The anterior and posterior margins of the pronotum have no notch, or occasionally an extremely indistinct one.

Alate

The vertex, pronotum and abdominal tergites are brownish, the mesonotum, metanotum, tibiae and abdominal sternites yellowish brown, the femora pale, the wing veins distinct. The body is rather large and robust, the ocelli rather large and elliptical, their distance from the compound eye less than the width of the ocellus. Antennae with 15 segments, the segments circular or oval. The anterior margin of the pronotum is almost straight and slightly raised at the middle, the two anterolateral corners slightly projecting forwards, the posterior margin narrower than the anterior, and an indistinct pale T-shaped mark in the middle of the disc. The forewing scale is slightly larger than the hindwing scale; the media of the forewing arises independently at the shoulder suture and lies close to the cubitus, beginning to branch beyond the midpoint of the wing length, with five or six branches in all reaching the wing apex, the cubitus with about eight branches; the media of the hindwing arises from the radial sector.

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Soldiers are orange-yellow behind and gradually deepen to orange-red in front, with black mandibles and a whitish body. The head is a large rectangle, the left mandible curved outward with a blunt tip, the right sword-like, and the labrum longer than wide with short needle-like side angles. Alates are brown with larger ocelli, 15-segmented antennae, a nearly straight pronotal front margin bearing a faint pale T-shaped mark, and a forewing media branching into five or six beyond mid-length.

Biology

It lives in the soil or inside dead tree roots, often together with capritermes-group termites and with Odontotermes; it has been found in the tunnels bored by Odontotermes in tree roots.

Distribution and locality

Shantou and Shaoguan, Guangdong; Pinghe, Fujian; Yunjinghong, Hekou, Pingbian, Jinping (Mengla), Mojiang, Santaishan, Simao and Manyun, Yunnan; abroad it is found in India.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 380 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

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  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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GB/T 7714

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

BibTeX

@misc{isoptera_pericapritermes_tetraphilus_2026,
  author       = {班奈特格林},
  title        = {Pericapritermes tetraphilus: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {2026.10.30},
  howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/pericapritermes-tetraphilus/},
  note         = {TERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}

RIS

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AU  - 班奈特格林
PY  - 2026
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DO  - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836
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