Pseudocapritermes sowerbyi Light, 1924 圆囟伪扭白蚁

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

Alate

The head is brownish, the thorax and abdomen brownish yellow, the wings brownish yellow with the veins brownish; the head and body densely covered with short hairs, and the wing surface also bears uniform short hairs. The head is broadly oval. The ocelli are elliptical; in the male the distance between the ocellus and the compound eye is about the width of one ocellus, in the female less than its own width. The postclypeus is slightly raised, its posterior margin slightly curved backwards, about one-third as long as wide, paler than the vertex. The fontanelle is large, its surface raised, situated at the centre of the vertex. Antennae with 15 segments, segment 3 slightly shorter than segments 2 and 4. The pronotum is ingot-shaped, the middle of the anterior margin straight, the lateral corners blunt and slightly projecting anterolaterally, the notches in the middle of the anterior and posterior margins indistinct. The forewing scale is larger than the hindwing scale. The radial sector of the forewing reaches the wing apex without branching, the media arises independently at the shoulder suture and runs nearer the cubitus than the radial sector, giving off three or four branches posteriorly to the wing apex, the cubitus with about ten branches; the media of the hindwing arises together with the radial sector at the shoulder suture and separates thereafter.

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Fuzhou, Hexi, Jianou and Nanping, Fujian; Shantou, Shaoguan and Zhanjiang, Guangdong; Qiongshan, Hainan; Yingjiang, Simao, Pingbian and Mengla, Jinping (390 m, 450 m, 500 m and 580 m), Yunnan.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 388 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.