Odontotermes feae (Wasmann, 1896)

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Odontotermes feae (Wasmann, 1896)

Synonymy: Termes feae Wasmann, 1896 , and next available name for Odontotermes indicus Takur, 1981 (imago, soldier, worker) in India.

Material examined: The specimens of O. feae were collected from the dry evergreen forest at Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi, and the deciduous dipterocarp forest at Nam Phong National Park in Khon Kaen province and at Doi Inthanon National Park in Chiang Mai province. Thirty soldier termites were used for describing.

Soldier case: thorax and legs have reddish brown in color, abdomen sternites light brown, vertex reddish brown ( Fig. 1J ). Head; reddish brown, subrectangular, sides slightly convex gradually narrowing anteriorly, maximally wide below the middle, a few scattered hairs, length of head to side base of mandibles with 2.14 mm to 2.32 mm, width of head at side base of mandibles with 1.05 mm to 1.18 mm. Antennae; 17 segments, brownish, the second segment almost twice as long as the third and slightly longer than the fourth; the third segment the shortest. Mandibles; long and stout, dark brown and bases reddish brown, the left mandible with a large, sharply pointed, anteriorly directed tooth almost in the middle, the right mandible with or without a minute denticle in the middle, length of left mandible with 1.17 mm to 1.24 mm. Labrum; reddish brown, long hairs along the lateral sides and at the tip, The labrum tip narrowly rounded, broadest in the middle; lateral margins moderately convex. Pronotum; brownish yellow, twice as broad as long, weakly emarginate anteriorly and distinctly emarginate posteriorly, the lateral lobes broadly rounded, sparsely hairy, pronotum length with 0.67 mm to 0.72 mm, pronotum width with 1.24 mm to 1.32 mm. Postmentum; two hairs near the anterior end. Postmentum; moderately curved, twice as broad as long in the basal half, deflated near the anterior margin.

Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand.

Figures

Fig. 1. Fungus-growing Termite species: (A) Ancistrotermes pakistanicus, (B) Hypotermes makhamensis, (C) Microtermes obesi, (D) Macrotermes annandalei (Major soldier), (E) Macrotermes annandalei (Minor soldier), (F) Macrotermes carbonarius (Major soldier), (G) Macrotermes carbonarius (Minor soldier), (H) Macrotermes gilvus (Minor soldier), (I) Macrotermes gilvus (Major soldier), (J) Odontotermes feae, (K) Odontotermes takensis, and (K) Odontotermes longignathus.