Stylotermes wuyinicus 武夷杆白蚁
- Type locality
- China: Fujian Province: Shaowu, Xian
- Distribution
- China
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Summary
Stylotermes wuyinicus is a species of the genus Stylotermes, in the family STYLOTERMITIDAE. The species was described by Li & Ping in 1981; the type locality is China: Fujian Province: Shaowu, Xian. Distribution: China.
Etymology
Genus name Stylotermes: From Greek stylos (pillar, style) + Latin termes.
Specific epithet wuyinicus: Named after the locality Wuyi (Fujian, China)
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 deep yellowish brown, pronotum slightly paler, abdomen pale yellow. Head capsule subrectangular, the sides slightly widened posteriorly. Fontanelle slightly projecting. Labrum semicircular. Mandibles sabre-shaped, the apices slightly curved. Lacinia of the maxilla with 9 marginal bristles. The antennae are all broken off, segment 1 slightly larger than segment 3, segment 3 about twice segment 2. Anterior margin of the pronotum with a broad V-shaped notch, the lateral margins sloping steeply backwards, the posterior margin slightly concave at the centre, the median longitudinal line visible, the median area with about 20 hairs.
Alate
Body deep brown, wing membrane pale greyish white. Head capsule subcircular, the coronal suture faintly discernible. Fontanelle pale and depressed, with several longitudinal striae arranged in three parallel lines in front of it. The long diameter of the compound eye about 4–5 times its distance to the lower margin of the head, the long diameter of the ocellus about 4 times the distance between the ocellus and the compound eye. The distance from the ocellus to the antennal socket about 3 times the distance from the compound eye to the antennal socket. Lacinia of the maxilla with 9 marginal bristles. The cubitus of the forewing and hindwing with about 17 branches.
Worker
Nymph
Abstract (from the source)
The soldier's head is deep yellowish brown, the pronotum slightly paler and the abdomen pale yellow. The capsule is nearly rectangular, widening a little behind, with a slightly raised fontanelle, a semicircular labrum and sabre-like mandibles. Antennae are broken in the material, but the first segment exceeds the third, which is about twice the second. The pronotum is widely V-notched in front with about twenty hairs in the middle. Alates are dark brown with pale grey wings, a nearly round head and a shallow, pale fontanelle preceded by several striae.
Biology
Host plant: Chinese sweetgum.
Distribution and locality
Shaowu, Fujian.
Taxonomic notes
Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 250 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 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
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 wuyinicus 武夷杆白蚁[EB/OL]. Version 2026.10.30. https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-wuyinicus/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836.
BibTeX
@misc{isoptera_stylotermes_wuyinicus_2026,
author = {班奈特格林},
title = {Stylotermes wuyinicus: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites)},
year = {2026},
version = {2026.10.30},
howpublished = {https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-wuyinicus/},
note = {STYLOTERMITIDAE; version 2026.10.30; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23646836},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23646836}
}
RIS
TY - ELEC TI - Stylotermes wuyinicus: a checklist of extant Isoptera (termites) AU - 班奈特格林 PY - 2026 UR - https://termite-extant-isoptera.org/en/species/stylotermes-wuyinicus/ DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23646836 ER -