Reticulitermes latilabris Ping, 1986 宽唇散白蚁

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

The head is yellow. The head capsule is rectangular, the head width index 0.62–0.72, the sides nearly parallel. The frons is flat. The labrum is lingulate, slightly wider than long, the apical region semicircular, with apical and lateral-apical hairs present. The apices of the mandibles are pointed and rather straight, the mandibular length 0.92–1.06 times the head width and 0.60–0.66 times the head capsule length. Antennae with 14–15 segments. The postmentum is short and broad, the waist constriction index 0.31–0.33, the ratio of the waist width to the head width about 1:7–8, and to the length of the postmentum also about 1:7–8. The pronotum is about 1.4–1.6 times as wide as long, the middle of the anterior and posterior margins both shallowly concave, the lateral margins slowly oblique posteriorly, with more than ten bristles in the middle region.

Alate

The head and postmentum are pale brown tinged with red, the thorax and the dorsal and ventral plates of the abdomen pale brown, the legs pale yellow, the femoral segments slightly deeper. The head capsule is oval, the vertex projecting, the fontanelle flat. In lateral view the postclypeus is slightly raised, lower than the vertex. Total length 14.65 mm, abdominal width 3.41 mm. Head width including the compound eyes 1.07 mm, excluding the compound eyes 1.04 mm; the projection rate of the compound eye 3 per cent, its long diameter 0.20 mm, its distance from the lower margin of the head 0.21 mm. The long diameter of the ocellus 0.07 mm, the ocellus-compound eye distance 0.05 mm, the distance from the ocellus to the antennal socket slightly greater than that from the compound eye to the antennal socket. Antennae with 13 segments, broken. Pronotum width 0.85 mm, length 0.56 mm, the median line faintly discernible, with nearly forty long hairs in the middle region. Hind tibia 1.04 mm long.

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Dayaoshan, Jinxiu, Guangxi, 1,100 m a.s.l.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 125 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.