Stylotermes acrofrons 丘额杆白蚁
- Type locality
- China: Sichuan Province: Ningnan Xian
- Distribution
- China
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Summary
Stylotermes acrofrons is a species of the genus Stylotermes, in the family STYLOTERMITIDAE. The species was described by Ping & Liu in 1981; the type locality is China: Sichuan Province: Ningnan Xian. Distribution: China.
Etymology
Genus name Stylotermes: From Greek stylos (pillar, style) + Latin termes.
Specific epithet acrofrons: From acro + frons
Taxonomic position
- Family: STYLOTERMITIDAE — 1 genus, 45 species
- Genus: Stylotermes — 45 species
- Type species of the genus: Stylotermes fletcheri
Distribution
- Distribution records: China
The record above follows the wording of the original data; no geocoding or standardized place names have been applied.
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 soldier deep yellowish brown. Head capsule oval-rectangular, the fontanelle projecting like a small hillock. Antennae 13–14 segments, the first slightly larger than the third, and the third about three times the second. Compound eyes very slightly projecting. Labrum semicircular. Apex of the mandibles rather straight and pointed, the basal prominence moderate; the left mandible about 0.66 of the head capsule and about equal in length to the head width. Lacinia of the maxilla with ten marginal hairs. Anterior margin of the pronotum with a broad V-shaped concavity, the posterior margin running in a straight line, median emargination index 12–19%, more than 30 hairs in the middle region, the median line distinct. Hind femur 2.4–2.6 times as long as wide.
Alate
Worker
Nymph
Abstract (from the source)
The soldier head is dark yellowish brown. The capsule is an oval rectangle and the fontanelle rises as a small mound. Antennae have thirteen or fourteen segments, the first slightly larger than the third and the third about three times the second. Eyes are weakly convex and the labrum semicircular. Mandibular tips are straight and pointed, the left mandible about two thirds of the head length. The pronotum is broadly V shaped in front and straight behind, with more than thirty setae on the disc.
Biology
Specimens collected from kapok (Bombax ceiba).
Distribution and locality
Ningnan, Sichuan.
Taxonomic notes
Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 218 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.
Distribution map
No GBIF record with coordinates was found for this species.
Related papers
Cached papers for this genus (matched automatically, for reference); to search this species with its junior synonyms merged in, use the literature search.
- A new species of the genus Stylotermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)
Abstract
- 9 new species of the genus stylotermes from china isoptera
Abstract
- The trail-following communication in Stylotermes spp. (Blattodea, Isoptera, Stylotermitidae)
Abstract
Stylotermitidae appear peculiar among all termites, feeding in trunks of living trees in South Asia only. The difficulty to collect them limits our ability to study them, and they thus still belong to critically unknown groups in respect to their biology. We used a combined approach of microscopic observations, chemical analysis and behavioural tests, to understand the source and chemical nature of the trail-following pheromone of Stylotermes faveolus from India and S. halumicus from Taiwan. The sternal gland is the exclusive source of the trail-following pheromone in both Stylotermes species. It is located at the 5th abdominal sternite in workers, made of class I, II and III secretory cells. Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry showed a minor peak corresponding to (Z)-dodec-3-en-1-ol (DOE). This compound elicits strong behavioural responses in workers, with a trail-following activity threshold around 10− 4 ng/cm in both species. Based on both chemical analysis and behavioural experiments, we estimated the amount of DOE around 0.1 ng/gland in S. faveolus and we conclude that DOE is the only active component of the trail-following pheromone of both Stylotermes species, like in all Kalotermitidae studied so far. Our results confirm the switch from complex aldehyde trail-following pheromones occurring in the basal groups to simpler linear alcohols in the ancestor of Kalotermitidae and Neoisoptera.
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Other species in Stylotermes (44 species)
- Stylotermes ahmadi
- Stylotermes alpinus
- Stylotermes angustignathus
- Stylotermes beesoni
- Stylotermes bengalensis
- Stylotermes chakratensis
- Stylotermes changtingensis
- Stylotermes chengduensis
- Stylotermes chongqingensis
- Stylotermes choui
- Stylotermes crinis
- Stylotermes curvatus
- Stylotermes dunensis
- Stylotermes faveolus
- Stylotermes fletcheri
- Stylotermes fontanellus
- Stylotermes guiyangensis
- Stylotermes halumicus
- Stylotermes hanyuanicus
- Stylotermes inclinatus
- Stylotermes jinyunicus
- Stylotermes labralis
- Stylotermes laticrus
- Stylotermes latilabrum
- Stylotermes latipedunculus
- Stylotermes lianpingensis
- Stylotermes longignathus
- Stylotermes mecocephalus
- Stylotermes minutus
- Stylotermes mirabilis
- Stylotermes orthognathus
- Stylotermes parabengalensis
- Stylotermes planifrons
- Stylotermes robustus
- Stylotermes roonwali
- Stylotermes setosus
- Stylotermes sinensis
- Stylotermes sui
- Stylotermes triplanus
- Stylotermes tsaii
44 species in this genus. See all species on the genus page →
Cite this species
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GB/T 7714
班奈特格林. Extant Isoptera (termites): a checklist of Latin and Chinese names: Stylotermes acrofrons 丘额杆白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-acrofrons/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.
BibTeX
@misc{isoptera_stylotermes_acrofrons_2026,
author = {班奈特格林},
title = {Stylotermes acrofrons: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
year = {2026},
version = {2026.10.30},
howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-acrofrons/},
note = {STYLOTERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}
RIS
TY - ELEC TI - Stylotermes acrofrons: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites) AU - 班奈特格林 PY - 2026 UR - https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-acrofrons/ DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836 ER -