Stylotermes choui Ping & Xu, 1981 周氏杆白蚁

Species

Type locality: China: Hunan Province: Huitong
Distribution: China

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Summary

Stylotermes choui is a species of the genus Stylotermes, in the family STYLOTERMITIDAE. The species was described by Ping & Xu in 1981; the type locality is China: Hunan Province: Huitong. Distribution: China.

Etymology

Genus name Stylotermes: From Greek stylos (pillar, style) + Latin termes.

Specific epithet choui: Named after the Chinese entomologist Chou Io

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 with a reddish tinge, pronotum brown, abdomen pale brownish yellow, pilosity of the head capsule rather abundant. Head capsule rectangular, the fontanelle rather projecting, the compound eyes slightly projecting, labrum semicircular. Apex of the mandibles rather curved and slightly upturned. Lacinia of the maxilla with eleven marginal hairs. Antennae 13–14 segments, the first slightly larger than the third, the third about three times the second. Anterior margin of the pronotum with a broad V-shaped incision, the lateral margins gently inclined posteriorly, the middle of the posterior margin slightly concave, the median longitudinal line visible, median emargination index 12–19%, the middle region rather densely hairy.

Alate

Body of the alate deep brown, wing membrane greyish white. Head capsule nearly circular, the epicranial suture faintly visible, with a V-shaped raised line in front of the fontanelle. Long diameter of the compound eye about 3–4 times the distance from it to the lower margin of the head. Long diameter of the ocellus about 2–3 times the ocellus–compound eye distance, and the distance from the ocellus to the antennal socket about twice that from the compound eye to the antennal socket. Antennae 17 segments. Lacinia of the maxilla with eleven marginal hairs. The Cu vein of the forewing and hindwing with about 16 branches.

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Soldiers are reddish brown on the head, brown on the pronotum and pale brownish yellow on the abdomen. The head is rectangular with a rather prominent fontanelle and a semicircular labrum. Mandibular tips are curved and slightly upturned, and eleven marginal setae line the lacinial lobe. Antennae have thirteen or fourteen segments, the third about three times the second. Alates are dark brown with greyish white wings, a nearly circular head and seventeen antennal segments.

Biology

Specimens collected from a tree known locally as yuchimu.

Distribution and locality

Huitong, Hunan.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 224 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.

Other databases

The links below are produced by matching the scientific name against public APIs, for cross-checking. The checklist data itself is unchanged.

GBIF Backbone Stylotermes choui accepted Stylotermes choui Ping & Xu, 1981 · confidence 100
Catalogue of Life Stylotermes choui Ping & Xu, 1981 accepted
WikidataQ140254552taxon item
World checklist Blattodea Species FileStylotermes choui Ping & Xu, 1981 validauto-matched

✔ Consistent with the accepted names in GBIF and Catalogue of Life.

Sources：GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · Catalogue of Life (3LR, 2026-10-14 · doi:10.48580/dgzh4) · Wikidata (P225) · Blattodea Species File. Retrieved on 2026-11-13 (UTC). Matching method and decision rules are described on the data page.

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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)
MENG-MENG CHEN, J. M. Chen · 1984 · Entomotaxonomia
Abstract
9 new species of the genus stylotermes from china isoptera
Ping Zhang, Y. Liu, Mel Y. Chen · 1981 · Entomotaxonomia
Abstract
The trail-following communication in Stylotermes spp. (Blattodea, Isoptera, Stylotermitidae)
Himanshu Thakur, Surbhi Agarwal, Jaromír Hradecký, Garima Sharma, Hou‐Feng Li, Shang-En Yang, Hana Sehadová, Ravinder Singh Chandel, Mirek Hyliš, Vartika Mathur, Jan Šobotník, David Sillam‐Dussès et al. · 2023 · Research Square
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)

44 species in this genus. See all species on the genus page →

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GB/T 7714

班奈特格林. Extant Isoptera (termites): a checklist of Latin and Chinese names: Stylotermes choui 周氏杆白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-choui/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.

BibTeX

@misc{isoptera_stylotermes_choui_2026,
  author       = {班奈特格林},
  title        = {Stylotermes choui: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {2026.10.30},
  howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-choui/},
  note         = {STYLOTERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}

RIS

TY  - ELEC
TI  - Stylotermes choui: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)
AU  - 班奈特格林
PY  - 2026
UR  - https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-choui/
DO  - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836
ER  -