Stylotermes chengduensis 成都杆白蚁
- Type locality
- China: Sichuan Province: Chengdu
- Distribution
- China
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Summary
Stylotermes chengduensis is a species of the genus Stylotermes, in the family STYLOTERMITIDAE. The species was described by Gao & Zhu in 1980; the type locality is China: Sichuan Province: Chengdu. Distribution: China.
Etymology
Genus name Stylotermes: From Greek stylos (pillar, style) + Latin termes.
Specific epithet chengduensis: Named after the locality Chengdu
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 brown, the operculum of the antennal socket nearly blackish brown, eye spots pale brownish yellow; pronotum slightly paler than the head but distinctly darker than the abdomen. Setae of the frontal region stout and long, becoming slender and short posteriorly; the labrum with five or six pairs of long setae near the anterior margin, the middle pair longer; the anterior margin of the pronotum sparsely setose, the hairs of the middle region short and sparse; the mesonotal and metanotal tergites rather densely hairy; the abdomen rather densely hairy. Head capsule rectangular, the sides nearly parallel, the posterior lateral corners rounded, the inclination of the frontal region 43–45°. Fontanelle small and dot-like, the aperture diameter 0.03 mm, situated at one-quarter of the head from the front. Eye spots hardly projecting. Labrum nearly semicircular, the labral apex running straight; mandibles stout and sabre-shaped, the apex slightly curved, the outer margin almost smooth, each upper mandible with one small marginal tooth behind the mid-point of the inner margin; the left mandible about 0.42 of the head capsule length. Pronotum kidney-shaped, the anterior margin concave, the posterior margin semicircular.
Alate
Worker
Nymph
Abstract (from the source)
The soldier head is brown with nearly blackish brown antennal covers and pale eye spots. Setae on the frons are thick and long, shorter behind, and the labrum carries five or six pairs of long bristles. The capsule is rectangular with nearly parallel sides and rounded hind angles. The fontanelle is a small dot set a quarter of the head length from the front. Mandibles are stout and sabre shaped with a minute marginal tooth behind the middle of each inner edge.
Biology
Specimens collected from ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba).
Distribution and locality
Chengdu, Sichuan.
Taxonomic notes
Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 222 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 alpinus
- Stylotermes angustignathus
- Stylotermes beesoni
- Stylotermes bengalensis
- Stylotermes chakratensis
- Stylotermes changtingensis
- 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 chengduensis 成都杆白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-chengduensis/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.
BibTeX
@misc{isoptera_stylotermes_chengduensis_2026,
author = {班奈特格林},
title = {Stylotermes chengduensis: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
year = {2026},
version = {2026.10.30},
howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-chengduensis/},
note = {STYLOTERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}
RIS
TY - ELEC TI - Stylotermes chengduensis: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites) AU - 班奈特格林 PY - 2026 UR - https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-chengduensis/ DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836 ER -