A review of the South-East Asian Nasutitermitinae (Isoptera: Termidae), with descriptions of one new genus and a new species and including a key to the genera
Author
Gathorne-Hardy, F.
text
Journal of Natural History
2001
2001-12-30
35
10
1485
1506
journal article
10.1080/002229301317067647
1464-5262
Ceylonitermes indicola
Worker and minor soldier are described in
Thakur (1976: 15–17)
.
F ig. 5.
Ceylonitermes indicola
Thakur
major soldier.
Table 3.
Range (mm) |
Mean (mm) |
SD |
Ceylonitermes indicola
major soldier, 14 specimens from two sites
|
Head length |
1.711 –1.968 |
1.817 |
0.092 |
Head width |
1.05 –1.384 |
1.21 |
0.096 |
Head length to base of rostrum |
1.19 –1.431 |
1.307 |
0.068 |
Rostrum length |
0.397– 0.63 |
0.51 |
0.06 |
Rostrum:head ratio |
0.302 –0.513 |
0.391 |
0.051 |
Head height |
0.865 –1.061 |
0.962 |
0.093 |
Height pronotum |
0.178–0.216 |
0.194 |
0.012 |
Width pronotum |
0.462 –0.563 |
0.504 |
0.032 |
Hind tibia length |
1.014–1.17 |
1.103 |
0.045 |
M ajor soldiers deposited in Bogor Zoological M useum, Bogor,
Indonesia
; Syiah Kuala University, Darussalam, Banda
Aceh
,
Indonesia
and the Natural History M useum, London, U K.
M easurements.
See table 3.
M ajor soldier
. H ead capsule, antennae and pronotum colour varies from reddish yellow to yellowish red. Legs yellow to reddish yellow. Head capsule in plan view has straight sides, which converge on to the front. Setae are very sparse on the head capsule, which is smooth and shiny. Nasus is shorter than head capsule behind antennae and is parallel sided for most of its length. The tip of the nasus has four large setae around the rim. Thirteen antennal articles. Postmentum is weakly and evenly convex, with sides more or less uniformly concave and at the most, one or two setae. Pronotum in plan view is broadly lobed in the middle, with the front margin entire. In pro le view the anterior lobe is smaller than the posterior.
Fig. 6.
Hirtitermes brabazoni
: (A) soldier head capsule; (B) worker mandibles.