Abstract
Anenteotermescherubimi Scheffrahn, sp. n. is described from workers and male imagos collected in Cameroon and Republic of the Congo. This is the smallest soldierless termite known from Africa. As with many soldierless and soil-feeding termite species, the enteric valve morphology is a robust and essential diagnostic character for An.cherubimi. Preserved workers display pre-autothysis morphology and the effects of abdominal autothysis.
Highlights
In his revision of the soldierless termites of Africa, Sands (1972) described 60 species (51 new) among 16 new genera, all beginning with the letter “A”
Preserved workers, stored in 85% ethanol, were positioned in a transparent petri dish filled with Purell® hand sanitizer (70% EtOH)
Body sections and dissected guts were photographed as multi-layer montages using a Leica M205C stereomicroscope with a Leica DFC 425 module run with Leica Application Suite software version 3
Summary
In his revision of the soldierless termites of Africa, Sands (1972) described 60 species (51 new) among 16 new genera, all beginning with the letter “A”. Sands (1972) described ten new species from his second-largest new genus, Anenteotermes. In his broader treatise on soil-inhabiting termite workers of Africa, Sands (1998) recapitulated his descriptions of Anenteotermes with one exception; he depicted the enteric valve armature (EVA) of “Anenteotermes new Copyright R.H. Scheffrahn,Y. Sands (1998: 169) noted “At least one new species awaits description from rain forest”. We describe this remarkable new Anenteotermes as A. cherubimi sp. We describe this remarkable new Anenteotermes as A. cherubimi sp. n., the smallest known soldierless termite in Africa
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