Reticulitermes huapingensis Li, 1980 花坪散白蚁

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 capsule pale yellowish brown, mandibles purplish brown, the pilosity moderate. The head capsule is rectangular, the head width index 0.55–0.6, the sides parallel, the posterior margin nearly straight. The frontal ridge is distinct, concave between the ridges. The labrum is nearly lingulate, the apex bluntly rounded, bearing rather long apical hairs, the subapical hairs very weak, the lateral-apical hairs absent. The mandibles are stout, their apices rather curved, the mandibular condyle present, the mandibular length 0.94–0.97 times the head width. Antennae with 16–17 segments. The anterior broad region of the postmentum lies at the anterior one-sixth, the lateral margins of the waist region parallel, the waist constriction index 0.35–0.38. The pronotum is about 1.6 times as wide as long, the notches of the anterior and posterior margins both rather distinct, the lateral margins abruptly narrowing posteriorly, with forty to fifty long hairs in the middle region.

Alate

Head capsule chestnut brown, the postmentum, pronotum and tibiae greyish yellow, the labrum, postclypeus, antennae and femoral segments pale chestnut brown. The head capsule is long-oval, the fontanelle dot-like, 0.56 mm from the anterior frontal margin. The compound eyes are elliptical, the circumocular groove distinct, the projection rate about 5 per cent, the short diameter greater than the distance from the compound eye to the lower margin of the head. The short diameter of the ocellus is greater than the ocellus-compound eye distance. In lateral view the postclypeus is almost not raised, situated below the vertex, the vertex arched. Antennae with 17–18 segments. The pronotum is 1.47–1.51 times as wide as long, the anterior margin broadly and shallowly concave, the notch at the middle of the posterior margin slightly shallower.

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Longsheng, Guangxi; Liping and Congjiang, Guizhou.

Taxonomic notes

The genus name is printed in the original work as Reticuliter mes, a misspelling 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. 175 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.