Stylotermes alpinus 高山杆白蚁
- Type locality
- China: Yunnan Province: Mt. Gaoligong, Tengchong County
- Distribution
- China
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Summary
Stylotermes alpinus is a species of the genus Stylotermes, in the family STYLOTERMITIDAE. The species was described by Ping in 1983; the type locality is China: Yunnan Province: Mt. Gaoligong, Tengchong County. Distribution: China.
Etymology
Genus name Stylotermes: From Greek stylos (pillar, style) + Latin termes.
Specific epithet alpinus: Latin alpinus (alpine)
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, the pronotum darker than the posterior part of the head, abdomen pale yellow. Pilosity of the head capsule rather abundant, the middle region of the pronotum with about 30 hairs. Head capsule nearly rectangular, slightly narrowed anteriorly, the fontanelle projecting. Labrum nearly square, the anterior margin nearly straight or faintly concave. Mandibles sabre-shaped, the apex slightly curved; the left mandible about 0.65 times the head capsule length and 0.99 times the head capsule width; the inner margin with extremely fine saw-like traces, with another small tooth below the middle, the mandibular basal ridge steep. Lacinia of the maxilla with about 13 marginal hairs. Antennae 14–15 segments, the third slightly larger than the first and about twice the second. Anterior margin of the pronotum with a broad V-shaped shallow concavity, its centre forming a U-shaped notch, the middle of the posterior margin shallowly concave, median emargination index 21–24%, the median longitudinal line distinct. Hind leg 2.5–2.8 times as long as the femur width.
Alate
Worker
Nymph
Abstract (from the source)
Soldiers are dark yellowish brown, the pronotum darker than the back of the head, the abdomen pale yellow. The capsule is nearly rectangular, slightly narrowed in front, with a raised fontanelle. The labrum is almost square. Mandibles are sabre shaped with a very fine serrate trace and a small inner tooth below the middle, and an abrupt basal peak. Thirteen marginal setae line the lacinial lobe, and the pronotum is broadly, shallowly notched in front with a clear mesal line.
Biology
Distribution and locality
Mount Gaoligong, Tengchong, Yunnan (altitude about 1920 m).
Taxonomic notes
Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 219 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 acrofrons
- Stylotermes ahmadi
- 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 alpinus 高山杆白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-alpinus/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.
BibTeX
@misc{isoptera_stylotermes_alpinus_2026,
author = {班奈特格林},
title = {Stylotermes alpinus: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
year = {2026},
version = {2026.10.30},
howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-alpinus/},
note = {STYLOTERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}
RIS
TY - ELEC TI - Stylotermes alpinus: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites) AU - 班奈特格林 PY - 2026 UR - https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-alpinus/ DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836 ER -