Stylotermes crinis Gao, Zhu & Gong, 1981 多毛杆白蚁

Species

Type locality: China: Sichuan Province: Chengdu
Distribution: China

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Summary

Stylotermes crinis is a species of the genus Stylotermes, in the family STYLOTERMITIDAE. The species was described by Gao, Zhu & Gong in 1981; the type locality is China: Sichuan Province: Chengdu. Distribution: China.

Etymology

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

Specific epithet crinis: Latin crinis (hair)

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

Soldier head reddish yellow, the anterior end slightly darker, mandibles nearly black, pronotum pale yellowish brown with the anterior margin slightly darker. Head capsule rectangular, the lateral margins seemingly broadly undulate, the posterior margin almost straight, the posterior lateral angles broadly rounded, slightly constricted behind the middle of the head. Fontanelle minute, a depressed dot, the fontanelle area flat or slightly raised in lateral view. Eye spot indistinct. Postmentum slender and long, widest at about one-fifth from the anterior end, the sides in front of the mentum concavely undulate, in lateral view projecting slightly beyond the lower margin of the head. Antennae 13-segmented, segment 2 shortest and smallest, segment 3 stout and long. The cover over the antennal socket is crescent-shaped and slightly upturned. Labrum semicircular, the anterior margin arcuately convex. Mandibles sabre-shaped, the apices incurved, the outer margin slightly undulate at the base, with a blunt rounded small tooth behind the midpoint of the inner margin. The middle and anterior parts of the head bear numerous long setae; pronotum flat and kidney-shaped, the anterior margin broadly V-shaped, the anterior lateral angles rounded, the posterior margin slightly convex backwards with a slight median notch, the median longitudinal line very indistinct, the surface with long hairs and short down. Femora stout, tibiae slender.

Alate

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

The soldier head is reddish yellow, darker toward the front, with nearly black mandibles. Long bristles are numerous on the front and middle of the head and dense on the labrum. The capsule is rectangular with broad undulate sides and broadly rounded hind angles. The fontanelle is a small sunken dot. Antennae have thirteen segments, the second smallest and the third thick. The pronotum is kidney shaped and flattened, broadly V shaped in front, and the legs are stout.

Biology

Specimens collected from alder.

Distribution and locality

Chengdu, Sichuan.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 225 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 crinis accepted Stylotermes crinis Gao, Zhu & Gong, 1981 · confidence 100
Catalogue of Life Stylotermes crinis Gao, Zhu & Gong, 1981 accepted
WikidataQ140254554taxon item
World checklist Blattodea Species FileStylotermes crinis Gao, Zhu & Gong, 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 crinis 多毛杆白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-crinis/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.

BibTeX

@misc{isoptera_stylotermes_crinis_2026,
  author       = {班奈特格林},
  title        = {Stylotermes crinis: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {2026.10.30},
  howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-crinis/},
  note         = {STYLOTERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}

RIS

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