Original+description+of+Termes+(Coptotermes)+gestroi



Soldier: 4mm long, yellow-grey with reddish-yellow head and brown jaws. Head long oval, longer than wide, considerably narrowed towards the front; the forehead above the epistome bulged, the bulge bores through from a big wide open fontanelle point, which resembles the thick base of terminated horns. Upper jaw shorter than half the head, sabre-form. Upper lips narrow, lancet-form, half as long as the upper jaw. Feelers stock, shorter than the head, 14 membered, 2nd member somewhat longer than the 3rd, from the 5th member up to the tip noticeably thickened. Prothorax very small and short, smaller than half the head, without anterior lobes; near the almost straight shortened, a weak cross furrow extends in the middle of the of the cropped outer margin; rounded sides of the prothorax with the back margin curved to an arc. Mesothorax half as long as the prothorax and equally wide as that. Metathorax half as long as mesothorax, but clearly wider. Related with Termes similis, Hagen, nasutus, Perty and other American species in the head development and the similar terminated frontal horns and distinguished through the lack of the anterior lobes on the prothorax. Possibly must be of every species whose soldiers agree on these features, a separate genus or subgenus established.

Translation by See Xin Yi and Cheyenne Allanspach.