Schedorhinotermes insolitus Xia & He, 1980 异盟长鼻白蚁

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 of the major soldier ginger-yellow, the antennae, pronotum and abdominal tergites all pale yellow. Pilosity of the head sparse; the pronotum and meso- and metanotum bear sparse hairs along their margins, and the hairs along the posterior margin of each abdominal segment are rather dense. Body large; head oval, its length (to the mandibular base) slightly greater than the greatest width, widest at about the posterior third of the sides, slightly contracted anteriorly, the middle of the posterior margin slightly projecting, the depression where the projecting margin meets the posterior lateral margins indistinct; in profile the dorsal margin of the head is slightly concave before the mid-point and slightly convex behind. Mandibles rather stout, the apex incurved, the outer margin slightly swollen near the base; the inner margin of the left mandible with two marginal teeth and that of the right with one, marginal tooth 1 narrow and pointed, marginal tooth 2 almost obsolete and merely a slight wave-like projection. Labrum rather short and broad, widest near the posterior part of the sides and hexagonal, the apex with a transverse transparent band whose anterior margin is rather deeply incised in the middle, the median longitudinal groove on the dorsal surface distinct; anteclypeus short and broad, band-like; postclypeus larger and slightly raised. Fontanelle distinct, situated at the centre between the two antennal sockets on the anterior part of the frons, the aperture circular, its anterior part deeply hollowed into a longitudinal groove that reaches the postclypeus and extends to the labral tip. Antennae 17 segments, the second and fourth subequal and both shorter than the third. Postmentum rather narrow and long, its widest part spherically swollen on the dorsal surface, the waist near the middle. Anterior margin of the pronotum projecting in a broad arc in the middle without a central incision, the notch at the middle of the posterior margin distinct; the pronotum about as wide as the mesonotum and slightly narrower than the metanotum; tibiae rather slender and long, tibial spur formula 3:2:2, tarsi 4-segmented.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Yunnan (Jinghong).

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 74 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.