Stylotermes fontanellus 长囟杆白蚁
- Type locality
- China: Sichuan Province: Puwei
- Distribution
- China
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Summary
Stylotermes fontanellus is a species of the genus Stylotermes, in the family STYLOTERMITIDAE. The species was described by Gao, Zhu & Han in 1982; the type locality is China: Sichuan Province: Puwei. Distribution: China.
Etymology
Genus name Stylotermes: From Greek stylos (pillar, style) + Latin termes.
Specific epithet fontanellus: Latin fontana (spring) + -ellus (small), little spring
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 brownish yellow, the anterior end slightly darker, labrum yellow at the centre, mandibles nearly black with reddish brown bases, antennae brownish yellow with the terminal segment nearly yellow, pronotum brownish yellow at the margins, abdomen yellow. Head capsule rectangular, the sides nearly parallel, the posterior margin narrow and straight, the posterior lateral angles broadly arcuate; in lateral view the head is flattened. Fontanelle minute, an elongate dot, the fontanelle area almost not raised. Eye spot oval and rather large, not bulging. The cover over the antennal socket is bow-shaped and upturned. Labrum nearly circular, the anterior margin bearing 12 long hairs. Mandibles sabre-shaped, the apices rather strongly curved. Postmentum enlarged anteriorly, the waist long and narrow, the waist constriction index about 0.44. Antennae 14-segmented, segment 2 shortest, segment 3 longest and largest, about 2.5 times segment 2 and hammer-shaped. Pronotum kidney-shaped, rather broad, the anterior margin slightly upturned, the V-shaped notch broad and rather deep, the anterior lateral angles narrowly rounded and projecting slightly forward, the posterior margin broadly arcuate, the posterior lateral angles broadly arcuate, the median longitudinal line almost invisible. Hind femur very stout.
Alate
Worker
Nymph
Abstract (from the source)
Soldiers are brownish yellow on the head, darker in front, with a yellow labrum and nearly black mandibles reddish brown at the base. The capsule is rectangular with nearly parallel sides and broad rounded hind angles, flattened in profile. The fontanelle is a small elongate dot. Eye spots are large, oval and flat. The labrum is nearly circular with twelve long hairs along the front edge. Antennae have fourteen segments, the third longest and club shaped.
Biology
Specimens collected from Alnus nepalensis.
Distribution and locality
Puwei, Sichuan.
Taxonomic notes
Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 227 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 chengduensis
- Stylotermes chongqingensis
- Stylotermes choui
- Stylotermes crinis
- Stylotermes curvatus
- Stylotermes dunensis
- Stylotermes faveolus
- Stylotermes fletcheri
- 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 fontanellus 长囟杆白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-fontanellus/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.
BibTeX
@misc{isoptera_stylotermes_fontanellus_2026,
author = {班奈特格林},
title = {Stylotermes fontanellus: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
year = {2026},
version = {2026.10.30},
howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-fontanellus/},
note = {STYLOTERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}
RIS
TY - ELEC TI - Stylotermes fontanellus: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites) AU - 班奈特格林 PY - 2026 UR - https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-fontanellus/ DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836 ER -