Abstract
• A new species of a rarely collected genus of termite from India. • Detailed description to the soldier and worker castes along with gut morphology of worker is given. • This is the fourth species of the genus and second from India. • A brief note on bio-ecology of the species is also given. Ceylonitermellus Emerson is a rarely collected soil inhabiting nasute termite endemic to Oriental region with three known species. A fourth species, Ceylonitermellus sahyadriensis sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on morphological characters of soldier and gut morphology of workers. Both the castes have poorly sclerotized body and paler in colour. This is the second species from India and fourth species of the genus from world. The species can be distinguished from the closely related C. periyarensis by the pyriform and shorter head capsule and with other two species of the genus by its larger head capsule as compared to C. kotuae and smaller head capsule as compared to C. hantanae . The new species was collected from tropical evergreen forest from a small colony near the base of a tree. LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:34616357-2CC9-46B2-8B8D-3CFD984CED89.
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