Reticulitermes ancyleus Ping, 1986 钩颚散白蚁

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 pale yellow. The head capsule is rectangular, the sides parallel, the frontal ridge slightly raised. The labrum is lingulate and bears apical hairs. The apices of the mandibles curve outwards like hooks, antennae with 14–15 segments. The postmentum is slender and narrow, its width to its length about 1:9–11. The pronotum is about 1.4–1.6 times as wide as long, the middle of the anterior margin rather deeply concave, the middle of the posterior margin shallowly concave, the lateral margins sharply oblique backwards, with about twenty long bristles in the middle region.

Alate

The dealate body is brown, the pronotum, postmentum and femoral segments all pale brown, the tibiae and tarsi pale yellow. The head capsule is rectangular, the vertex arched outwards, the fontanelle dot-like and slightly projecting; in lateral view the postclypeus is slightly raised and lies below the vertex. Body length without wings 5.7 mm, head width including the compound eyes 1.12 mm, head width excluding the compound eyes 1.04 mm, long diameter of the compound eye 0.27 mm, distance from the compound eye to the lower margin of the head 0.15 mm; long diameter of the ocellus 0.1 mm, ocellus-compound eye distance 0.05 mm; pronotum width 0.92 mm, length 0.61 mm, hind tibia length 1.14 mm. The distance from the compound eye to the antennal socket is about half the distance from the ocellus to the antennal socket; antennae with 15 segments, broken. The median line of the pronotum is almost invisible, with more than twenty long hairs in the middle region.

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Damingshan, Wuming, Guangxi (1,050 m a.s.l.).

Taxonomic notes

The genus name is printed in the original work as Rer icu, a defective spelling of Reticulitermes; it is now assigned to the genus Reticulitermes.

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 200 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.